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by hoppyhoppy2 1505 days ago
The link in that same paragraph has some more info. ( https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html )

It seems to me like it's a rhetorical framing of GPL rights to place them within the "right to repair" movement. (Think Richard Stallman wanting to fix issues with the printer at MIT, but unable to because the driver was closed-source proprietary code)