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So I'm curious - is this considered blackmail if the object isn't money?
by phowon 8y ago
So I'm curious - is this considered blackmail if the object isn't money?
- throwaway8879 8y agoYes, very much so.
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- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoGenerally, yes, but you might catch a charge for something else. If they're not asking for money, what they're asking for has to be illegal. Blackmail for Theft: Conspiracy to commit Theft. Blackmail for Fraud: Conspiracy to commit Fraud.
- pertymcpert 8y agoWikipedia says this: Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false, and often damaging, information about a person, to the public, family members, or associates unless certain demands are met. It seems its considered blackmail but in the strictly legal sense I'm not sure. There's probably a law to cover that though, extortion?
- elliekelly 8y agoIt only needs to be “something of value”... often money, but I think most reasonable people can see the potential value of the requested statement from Jeff Bezos. Now if AMI wanted you or I to say those statements I’m not sure how valuable they’d be.
- slavik81 8y agoTo elaborate, "something of value" is the language from the federal law. Under Washington state law, blackmail explicitly includes demands for services. I would think that the demand for a public statement would qualify, however, I'm not a lawyer, and this case is unusual enough that I would not be confident in my personal interpretation of the law.
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