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by Veserv 741 days ago
Recall is unfortunately interpreted as the fix, “physically send back to factory”, where as it is actually a term of art meaning a public notice of a safety-endangering problem that the manufacturer is responsible for fixing, replacing, or refunding for free.

While I have previously agreed that it should not be necessary to change the term, it is unfortunately confusing to laypeople and intentionally misconstrued by bad actors to downplay safety faults. I propose it should be replaced with: “Safety Defect Notice” which is a fairly precise description of the underlying concept and can not be misconstrued to be about the “fix”.