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> what's stopping them from being transferred to a Belizean shell company owned by a company in Delaware with a board full of puppets who blindly do the bidding of the previous owners?

What stops the puppets from ignoring the previous owners?



> What stops the puppets from ignoring the previous owners?

A big paycheck.

Most readers on HN would happily pledge loyalty to the CCP if it meant $1M+ TC.

In fact, many American and European businesses do exactly this.


> A big paycheck.

So what happens after they’ve received the big paycheque?

I think you’d have a hard time aligning the amount of the paycheques such that the puppets couldn’t get bigger expected future paycheques by doing what they wanted with tiktok.


> I think you’d have a hard time aligning the amount of the paycheques such that the puppets couldn’t get bigger expected future paycheques by doing what they wanted with tiktok.

Presumably the puppets wouldn't have access to the tiktok platform (its code including AI algorithms, data, employees, etc), they'd just be a middle-man that would take the finished product (e.g. the APK) and publish it to distribution platforms (Google and Apple's app stores)?


Doing business is not necessarily pledging loyalty.

You think I pledged loyalty to various employers, even? I mean I told them I did, but I was lying.




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