I suspect the same way PG&E has fought public power expansion: channel corporate propaganda through astroturf taxpayer groups misleading about the costs.

In all the various ways that corporations manage to get legislation passed.

These corporations are not stopping local co-op formation. They are lobbying for laws that severely limit (and in some cases, prevent) their ability to operate.

> They are lobbying for laws that severely limit (and in some cases, prevent) their ability to operate.

That's what I'm curious about. What's in those laws they're lobbying for?

>That's what I'm curious about. What's in those laws they're lobbying for?

See[0] for yourself. You keep "asking questions" about stuff that's decades old. It makes me wonder if you're not asking in good faith. Please prove me wrong.

[0] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

Why don't you read the article that we are supposed to be discussing and find out?

Right back at you? The bill in the article is a call for deregulation. Zero to do with killing competition

>How exactly do they do that?

Through groups like ALEC[0]. And that's nothing new.

[0] https://alec.org/