You don’t HAVE to commit code to a git repo they control.
The socio-political reality isn’t like 100 years ago.
As soon as Wall Street is seriously threatened by a worker related revolt, laws change.
Keep the laptop shut and DON’T “job from home” (work is not the same as a social job).
But come now, let’s all coalesce around a VC incubators forum instead.
If the US is truly a nation of free people, why do they keep doing as they are told?