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I think this is called extortion, not blackmail.
by scottlawson 6y ago
I think this is called extortion, not blackmail.
- jaywalk 6y agoYou are correct. Blackmail would involve threatening to expose some sort of negative info about the YouTuber.
- dificilis 6y agoThe official Hacker News headline-fixing person needs to fix this right now.
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- Freeboots 6y agoRight?! This annoyed the hell out of me when i saw the vid on youtube. It sucks his videos are getting taken down, but to my mind he loses intergity by playing it up as blackmail. Extortion is bad enough, why not call it like it is?
- catalogia 6y agoYou perceive one to be dramatically worse than the other? I don't.. I don't think he's using incorrect terminology to play up the severity of what happened. It's more likely he simply made a mistake.
- meowface 6y agoExtortion is a worse crime than blackmail generally, in my opinion, ethically speaking. Extortion is using one's power and force to threaten harm to someone in some way if not paid, while blackmail is using knowledge of information to do the same. Extortion is the more "violent" and violating act. Either way, they're pretty similar, though Your post is extremely confusing and bizarre to me.