I don't know about the political leanings of right to repair supporters on average, but there are prominent supports who I certainly wouldn't characterize as leftist. See Louis Rossman for example.
I think this is an oversimplification at best. Right-to-repair has huge support amongst e.g. farmers, who are not homogeneously left-leaning by any stretch.
The right is not significantly more opposed to regulation of business than the left, except in some shallow rhetoric. They just want the regulations to align with their own world view.
The right to repair isn't leftist for those who don't believe intellectual property is property. For those people, the laws prohibiting people from cracking lockouts on hardware they own and modifying the code running on their own equipment are the governmental regulation they're fighting against.
it's pretty classic, people creating new throwaway accounts to spout their garbage because they're too embarrassed to chance it being linked back to them.
what does that say about the quality of what you have to say?
>> more governmental regulation, such as the right to repair itself.
Wanting more personal freedoms is generally considered a right-wing view. Creating a right to repair is about placing limits on corporations, not actual people. Try telling people that they can only use "original" parts in their guns and suddenly the entire NRA will be on the streets demanding a constitutional amendment in support of right-to-repair. This isn't a left-right political thing. It is a persons v. corporations issue, with government as the representative of the people.
I think a lot of folks use "leftist" in modern usage to mean "those who are further left than liberals". And that's where you're getting a lot of pushback. In terms of governmental regulation "you cannot use the judicial system to compel people to use your preferred avenue of repair" is pretty weak. I think there's a path to saying "there's no legal concept of 'felony contempt of business model'" is anti governmental regulation.
What I'm saying is that by casting right-to-repair as leftist (or rightist) just muddies the waters of what leftism is without providing any guiding context about why people might be for or against the right to repair. In any case, there's very few parts of the governmental-regulation spectrum that are unambiguously left or right.
That's false. I'm extremely (machine guns are a human right, the government got too big in 1777) libertarian-right, and right-to-repair is a sensible regulation that empowers individual agency and adds massive value to the economy.
