How is this not hitting anti-competition laws? What exactly is their justified reason for trying to block these other than money?

We can win fights and battles here, but modern Democracy is set up to fail against the kind of relentless lobbying corporate interests can muster. We need to seriously think about re-structuring how people engage with government because’ we’ll never win against a system where a corporate entity has infinite time to get their shitty policies made into law.