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No. We have the civil rights act of 1964.

But presumably, were this discussion taking place in 1963, there would be someone saying:

<company> will do whatever the hell it wants on its own property and has no obligation to listen to anyone except the voice of 51% of its shareholders.

This is all well documented history. I encourage you to look at the circumstances and conversations in govt that lead to the civil rights act.

I think that's really beside the point I am making. My argument is that history is full of people defending the status quo, until it stops being the status quo. Then it becomes taken as truth that the new status quo is how things must be.

We can have discussions about what a business can and cannot do beyond what they are currently allowed to do.

Yes. Exactly what I tried to suggest.

So you agree that they should be regulated. Law is regulation.

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