Big Tech Doesn't Want You To Be Able To Fix Your Things

About this episode

The episode discusses the Right to Repair Movement and its significance in challenging Big Tech's control over product repairs.

On this episode, producer Sophie Kazis speaks with Motherboard’s Editor-in-Chief Jason Koebler about his longtime reporting on the Right to Repair Movement, and why it’s important to break up Big Tech’s stronghold on repairing broken products. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Sophie Kazis

Guest: Jason Koebler

Topics covered

• Right to Repair
• Big Tech
• product repair
• journalism
• technology

Keywords

• Right to Repair
• Big Tech
• repair movement
• technology
• journalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Motherboard, Big Tech, Acast

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