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Has the US ever been ahead of any of its peers when it comes to consumer rights?

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No, but it also stands to profit from those violations of consumer rights, where other countries do not.

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Do guns count?

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How is that ahead? You mean in head count?

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That might be the only thing, actually.

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Has the US ever been ahead of any of its peers when it comes to consumer rights?

Fair Use is cool.

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In principle it is cool, but large corporations can still bully you into submission even when it should fall under Fair Use.

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Ahhh America. “Yeah we’re wrong, but we can afford lawyers for centuries, lol good luck” land of the free

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maybe right to repair?

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We’re trending in the right direction but we’re not at all in a position to be saying we’re better than anyone on that front, given how much industry pushback there’s been.

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