united-states ccpa
In the United States is doing business in only some states considered discrimination?
<p>A business would like to only operate in states except for California to avoid the $7500-per-person fine CCPA demands. Is it legal or would the business have to leave out the whole of USA?</p>
<p>For information on the CCPA, see: <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa</a></p>

<h2>I have a really good pizza place near my home but the bastards won't deliver when I go interstate! Now, that's discrimination!</h2>
<p>Yes, it's discrimination. However, it's not unlawful discrimination.</p>
<p>Discrimination is not unlawful unless it is on the basis of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group" rel="noreferrer">protected class</a>. Geography isn't a protected class of itself. It can be if it's used as a proxy for a protected class, such as excluding certain neighbourhoods which correspond with racial or religious groups, but that's not the case here.</p>

<p>Yes, it's perfectly legal to exclude places from your delivery service - even if you only do so for certain goods. For example, you can't deliver glues containing certain chemicals in some areas, or cans that are larger than a certain size. As a result, <a href="https://www.mcmaster.com/glue/contact-adhesives/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">McMaster-Carr does not deliver contact cement to certain Areas and States</a>. Sure, it's discrimination, but totally legal.</p>
<p>So, because that law might prevent you from doing things as you do them, you can opt to not do business in that area - just like Project Gutenberg blocks Germans, because they don't want to do business in Germany after a lawsuit.</p>
