• Weedian [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The Biden administration has warned car manufacturers that they should not comply with a Massachusetts law that makes it easier for consumers and independent auto shops to repair cars, citing concerns with hacking

    :brandon: they’re gonna hack your car, jack

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    1 year ago

    Read the article and it looks more like the car companies found a loophole and exploited it with Washington going, “Oh well. Nothing we can do about it since it’s technically legal.”

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      They did more than saying “nothing we can do about it”, they are actively making statements unequivocally supporting the car companies’ side using the car companies’ own rhetoric. This feels like a case of “Biden admin acts ‘progressive’ when it’s symbolic and as tools of the capitalist class when it matters”