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The main difference is what threat is being used. It's fine to threaten to sue someone (within reason). It is not ok to threaten to report someone to the police
by jetrink 9y ago
The main difference is what threat is being used. It's fine to threaten to sue someone (within reason). It is not ok to threaten to report someone to the police if they don't pay you. It is even worse to hold someone in a room, pressure them into signing a confession and then to threaten to turn that confession over to the police if the agreed payment is not delivered, as Walmart is accused of doing here.
- jnwatson 9y agoStill confused. What’s the difference between this and the typical NDA that a sexual harassee signs?
- adventured 9y agoThere's no conceptual difference. The only consequences difference is the fear being espoused on here that Walmart or similar could frequently abuse it as an extortion point (and that given their scale, it could become a terrifying beast of a problem; such that even if Walmart weren't directly doing the extorting - which they're unlikely to do - others in the system would). For example, you get a person in the Walmart system, a guard or whatever, that has records on people that have commited crimes in Walmart. Joe Consumer gets caught shoplifting and pays a fee for it to go away, and doesn't get turned in to the police. Now, the security guard with the profiles starts going outside the framework and begins blackmailing people like Joe. These will mostly be poorer people and are very easy to prey upon in such a scenario.