3 ms·
Extortion usually involves the use of illegal force, which I don't see here. I agree it's shady and possibly something that will get them in legal hot water.
by einhverfr 15y ago
Extortion usually involves the use of illegal force, which I don't see here. I agree it's shady and possibly something that will get them in legal hot water. However, I doubt it is a crime any more than lying about your age on Myspace is fraud. At best I think here we are talking about contract law.
- bad_user 15y agoI don't know what the law says, but I don't think there's such a thing as illegal force. The extortion itself is illegal, not the force used.
- ebrenes 15y agoI'm not a lawyer, but reading on this, http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1 http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1, it's definitely not far fetched to consider what is being done by Zynga as extortion. They're demanding an act from the employees under threat of personal/property injury (being fired). They would have been much better off simply firing them if they were underperforming. Sometimes voicing out the thought process is all that's required to make something extorsion. Like if I say "I'm going to sue you if you don't X, Y or Z" can be considered extorsion. Whereas simply suing them isn't.