I think it's time we had a talk about how the two words "public" and "private" mean so many different things in different contexts that they do more harm than good Like "public schools" in the UK do have a reason for being called that even if they are in fact private schools https://twitter.com/athenahollow/status/1262919709193838593 …
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Like the Civil Rights Act applies to letting people into a "public accommodation", which doesn't mean a business owned by the government but just one "open to the public"
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So your restaurant is "public" in that sense even though it's neither actually owned by the public nor "publicly" traded and is in the financial sense entirely private
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Ooh, let's do public company next!
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