What is Fight to Repair?
In a world that is increasingly populated by smart, Internet connected and software driven "stuff," your rights of ownership - including the right and ability to service and maintain your own property - are in jeopardy.
Even as the countries moves to embrace "circular economy" principles that minimize waste and maximize reuse, repair and recycling, large, powerful corporations and corporate interests are pushing in the opposite direction: using expansive arguments about copyright and intellectual property to push small businesses out of existence and build software-enforced monopolies over service, parts and repair. But people are fighting back.
Fight to Repair covers the grassroots, global battle to be able to fix our own stuff and - in the process - empower consumers, small businesses, the marketplace and the planet.
Who is Fight to Repair?
The Fight To Repair Substack was founded by Paul Roberts (LinkedIn |BlueSky | X) and Jack Monahan in December, 2020.
Paul Roberts, Editor in Chief
Paul is an experienced technology journalist who publishes The Security Ledger and founded Secure Repairs.org, a group of more than 400 information technology professionals who support the right to repair. More recently, Paul helped found The Secure Resilient Future Foundation (SRFF), a 501C4 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting policies that ensure a future of long lived, cybersecure, repairable and resilient stuff.
Paul is a board member at The Repair Association (repair.org) and has testified before the U.S. Congress as well as numerous state legislatures in support of right to repair legislation. Paul has spoken at leading conferences including BlackHat Briefings, RSA Conference, DEF CON and HOPE. His writing has appeared in publications including Mother Jones, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, The Economist Intelligence Unit, CISO, Computerworld and many more. He has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report, KPCC AirTalk, Fox News Tech Take, Al Jazeera and ...wait for it... The Oprah Show.
Jack Monahan, Co-Editor
Jack (LinkedIn) is a professional with deep experience in the nonprofit sector. A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, Jack serves as a board member at The Secure Resilient Future Foundation (SRFF) and a writer and co-editor for Fight To Repair Newsletter.
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