I agree that breaking them up would do some good, but in the case at hand you would just have a longer list of companies working together to defeat r2r.

If you could break them into very small pieces (e.g. split Google’s Android line into 6 different companies instead of 2), then you might see some competing for repairability against Fairphone. But still maybe a long shot. I walk into a phone shop and have 10s of different brands and not a single one of them has tried to go after the built-for-long-life market. Fairphone is alone on that AFAICT.

I think the only way out of this is to ban the environmentally detrimental practices of burying batteries in glue and booby trapping toothbrushes to self-destruct when opened. Because there will always be enough zombie consumer masses willing to buy that shit.

Thanks for mentioning Calyx OS.. Added it here:

slrpnk.net/post/14841773

I looked through the article and didn't see anything linking this to Democrats.What made you say that, that way?