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jasomilltoday at 8:06 PM1 replyview on HN

"Limited liability" refers to shareholders' financial liability being limited to their investment, and has nothing to do with civil or criminal liability of employees for their own actions, whether "following orders" or not.


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elmo2youtoday at 10:05 PM

You might want to look up LLC (Limited Liability Company), which goes by other names in different countries but still basically mean the same (though details may vary between different company types). While there certainly are exceptions, as mentioned before, in principle the employees of a company are not personally legally accountable for their actions as performed in the service of a company. The legal entity of that companies is. If you sincerely believe otherwise, you either live in a rather unusual country or maybe just need to educate yourself a bit better.

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