"Can't charge extra for using a credit card" is a contractual condition imposed by the credit card companies. If anything there should be a law voiding such conditions as contrary to sound public policy. Why should cash or debit card users in a competitive market be charged extra to subsidize rewards for credit card users, for example?

Written by the same people that gave us the “everything causes cancer” warnings?

Yes it is.

Perhaps Netflix is not _breaking_ a law, which itself may have been written by "dilettantes", but this action certainly disabuses us of the notion that Netflix has any intention to adhere to the spirit of the law, which was to reduce racial and gender-based salary gaps.

Is it flouting a law though?

The credit card thing mostly isn't a law, it's part of the merchant agreements. There's a few states with a "no fees" law (which all allow cash discounts):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2021/04...

The typical cash discount at any gas station in California that I've seen is 10 cents.

I get 3% back on gas purchases from my credit card.

Question: At what price per gallon does it stop making cents (heh) to buy with cash?

Hint: California hasn't had gas at that price for many years already.