Unlocking phones is illegal? Let’s fix this. Sign the White House petition.
When you buy a phone, it is your property. If you have a contract that provides a subsidy for that phone, after that contract ends, you should be able to do whatever you want with the phone. You bought it.
Unfortunately, the Library of Congress sees it differently. It recently ruled that unlocking phones is illegal.
Our phone service in the United States is already more expensive than other countries because of lock in. This will make it worse.
Please sign this petition to make the White House review the policy.
We need ~24k more signatures before February 23 in order to get the White House to respond to the petition so after you sign it, please pass it on. Everyone with a mobile phone is impacted by this ruling.
Jason Grigsby is one of the co-founders of Cloud Four, Mobile Portland and Responsive Field Day. He is the author of Progressive Web Apps from A Book Apart. Follow him at @grigs.
