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This is a perfect way for the legal head of the company in-country to visit some jails.

They will explain that it was done remotely and whatnot but then the company will be closed in the country. Whether this matters for the mothership is another story.

>>Brando+(OP)
Of course they will not lock the data but hide it, and put some redacted or otherwise innocent files in their place.

>>ameliu+7p
That sounds awfully difficult to do perfectly without personally signing up for extra jail time for premeditated violation of local laws. Like in that scenario, any reference to the unsanitized file or a single employee breaking omertà is proof that your executives and IT staff conspired to violate the law in a way which is likely to ensure they want to prosecute as maximally as possible. Law enforcement around the world hates the idea that you don’t respect their authority, and when it slots into existing geopolitics you’d be a very tempting scapegoat.

Elon probably isn’t paying them enough to be the lightning rod for the current cross-Atlantic tension.

>>ameliu+7p
Nobody does that. It is either cooperation with law enforcement or remote lock (and then there are consequences for the in-country legal entity, probably not personally for the head but certainly for its existence).

This was a common action during the Russian invasion of Ukraine for companies that supported Ukraine and closed their operations in Russia.

>>acdha+Ju
These days you can probably ask an LLM to redact the files for you, so expect more of it.

>>Brando+(OP)
> but then the company will be closed in the country. Whether this matters for the mothership is another story.

Elon would love it. So it won't happen.

>>ameliu+Pw
True, but that’s going to be a noisy process until there are a few theoretical breakthroughs. I personally would not leave myself legally on the hook hoping that Grok faked something hermetically.

>>Brando+(OP)
It's not illegal to head a subsidiary of a company that did bad things, but I'm sure he will be intensely questioned. If he did something illegal, he may be punished.