Let's say you were wanting to control all the media and had the money to outright purchase all major news networks, newspapers, magazines and radio. For a moment, pretend that the respective courts for mergers/acquisitions allowed for it. Pretend it is all privately-owned corps. that you are taking over. (as in, no publicly traded stock)
Could you somehow own it all without the public knowing that? Perhaps obscure it through tons of corporations (entities as opposed to human owner) and have a corporation owning subsidiaries which in turn owns others, hiding it through the various layers?
Obviously something has to be on paper to acknowledge that you are, in fact, the owner. But can you hide it from the public at large and still maintain control and ownership? Must all privately-owned corporations have publicly accessible information such as basic info in a business directory?
How can you minimize even internal employees from knowing about it all? Is it even possible? (say, at most, you only wanted a handful of people knowing).
Of the people that know about it, say the people who file the legal paperwork and the government employees who license the corporation--do they have a legal obligation to keep it "under wraps" if you do not wish to disclose it?
Could you somehow own it all without the public knowing that? Perhaps obscure it through tons of corporations (entities as opposed to human owner) and have a corporation owning subsidiaries which in turn owns others, hiding it through the various layers?
Obviously something has to be on paper to acknowledge that you are, in fact, the owner. But can you hide it from the public at large and still maintain control and ownership? Must all privately-owned corporations have publicly accessible information such as basic info in a business directory?
How can you minimize even internal employees from knowing about it all? Is it even possible? (say, at most, you only wanted a handful of people knowing).
Of the people that know about it, say the people who file the legal paperwork and the government employees who license the corporation--do they have a legal obligation to keep it "under wraps" if you do not wish to disclose it?
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