• grue@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I’m not sure you appreciate how old and well-established the government’s right to regulate de-jure monopoly utility companies actually is.

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      26 days ago

      You’re probably right about this if you are certain I am wrong. I haven’t researched any laws on this, so perhaps there wouldn’t be long expensive annoying legal challenges that could be bypassed by crafting the law differently and it would be easier to be more direct.