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Guarantee fair repair, data portability, and interoperability rights unless a manufacturer proves a specific safety, security, or privacy risk.
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Jul 6, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republicans can hear this issue through property rights, rural independence, small business, and distrust of concentrated platform control. Democrats can hear it through competition, consumer protection, privacy, and anti-monopoly enforcement. The FTC's Deere suit, filed with state partners, shows one federal enforcement path. State repair laws show another path.
The Innovation Party's delta is to make the access rule technology-neutral and risk-calibrated. The party should not write a nostalgic repair plank that ignores cybersecurity. It should not write a platform-competition plank that forgets physical products. It should connect repair, portability, and interoperability as one ownership problem in a software-mediated economy.
Turn frustration into useful pressure.
If this position misses evidence or a lived consequence, challenge it. If it holds up, help test it locally and connect it to the issues around it.