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> Because they're also actively lobbying to kill any local co-op formation. Successfully in many states. How exactly do they do that?
by tivert 3y ago
> Because they're also actively lobbying to kill any local co-op formation. Successfully in many states.
How exactly do they do that?
- dragonwriter 3y agoI suspect the same way PG&E has fought public power expansion: channel corporate propaganda through astroturf taxpayer groups misleading about the costs.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoIn 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.
- tivert 3y ago> 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?
- nobody9999 3y ago>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-roadblocks https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
- jjoonathan 3y agoWhy don't you read the article that we are supposed to be discussing and find out?
- speff 3y agoRight back at you? The bill in the article is a call for deregulation. Zero to do with killing competition
- nobody9999 3y ago>How exactly do they do that? Through groups like ALEC[0]. And that's nothing new. [0] https://alec.org/ https://alec.org/