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No, it is primarily about damaging reputation. Threatening to call a SWAT team to someone's house if they don't pay you is extortion, not blackmail, even thoug
by samatman 4y ago
No, it is primarily about damaging reputation.
Threatening to call a SWAT team to someone's house if they don't pay you is extortion, not blackmail, even though you're providing 'information' to the police, it is to cause a physical threat, not to damage reputation.
The result here is destruction of income, not damage to reputation. It's extortion.
- croes 4y agoYour example of calling a SWAT team is improper government action. But if I tell your threaten you to tell your employer you are stealing from him it's blackmail. If you get fired it's destruction of income but still blackmail. Or an example of former times. I threaten to tell your boss you are gay, you get fired if I do, also destruction of income. It's not the result but the type of threat. Extortion requires some sort of physical force blackmail is verbal
- samatman 4y agoSince I maintain that the definition is harm to reputation, and you've given two examples which trivially involve harm to reputation, you haven't made your case. Spurious copyright strikes are just an attack on income, no different from a DDOS, ransomware, or running up a bunch of spurious purchases, in anything but the mechanism (in this case providing fraudulent information). That's extortion.