The Atlantic, November 4, 2011
By Emily Badger

Companies like Comcast want to protect their corner on the market from competition with city-run non-profits. What's less understandable is the route their interests have taken: Residents and state legislators from Colorado to North Carolina have been voting away the rights of cities to build their own broadband, with their own money, for the benefit of their own communities. This battle has largely pitted well-organized corporations against people who aren't quite sure what they're voting on.

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