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It seems to me that the bad reviews were published on the site regardless of their offer. So I can't see how is this extortion. Extortion would be along the li
by fogetti 6y ago
It seems to me that the bad reviews were published on the site regardless of their offer. So I can't see how is this extortion.
Extortion would be along the lines of "we publish some made up bad reviews unless you pay".
- justin66 6y ago> offered to remove bad reviews if we paid them
- fogetti 6y agoYes. You are right. That is not extortion.
- LorenPechtel 6y agoIt's still extortion.
- fogetti 6y agoNope
- cjaybo 6y agoIn my opinion, the important takeaway is that their actions completely undermine the integrity of the service they are claiming to provide. Whatever you'd like to call it, it's scummy behavior and they deserve to lose any market share they've gained by misleading users about their service.
- fogetti 6y agoCalling something extortion which is a legal term and punishable by federal law is different from accusing them undermining integrity of the service. And yeah, it's scummy.
- BurningFrog 6y agoExtortion is a weird crime if you think about it. You ask people for money to not do something that's in itself legal. It's a topic ripe for tortured moral philosophy :)
- fogetti 6y agoPeople here for some reason think that throwing around legal terms based on gut feelings is somehow the start of civil discussion. And I tend to correct those people. That's all. Extortion is a legal term and it's pretty well defined compared to other crimes. And this is not extortion. I can recommend all commenters who downvoted to go and denounce the offence of extortion and see for themselves what happens. I for one would love to see it to have a good laugh :D
- justin66 6y ago> Extortion is a legal term It also has a definition that 99% of the people you are communicating with, who are not lawyers, are more familiar with: the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. You're sperging out about the wrong thing to the wrong people.
- fogetti 6y agoSperging out like you? It seems the point doesn't get through to you, so I spell it out for you: There Is NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER. And why the hell are you and other so hell bent on butting into something which according to your own words you are not lawyers so you have zero idea about, and still you seem to be not even interested in learning about the real life context and understanding the nuances?
- justin66 6y ago> NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER That's obviously untrue, so I'm not sure why you'd write it, but well done with the capitalization. "Pay me or I will continue to publish this blurb which is damaging to you" is as clear a threat as can be.
- eindiran 6y ago> extort - (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. This is taking money from an unwilling person by duress, using an undue exercise of power (ie control of bad reviews on their platform). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extort https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extort
- fogetti 6y agoDuress? LOL. What duress? If they pay, the situation gets better. If they don't pay the situation remains the same. Your claim is ridiculous. In any case the situation never gets worse so there is no duress.