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Gmail wouldn’t care at all, they know the pressure would go the other way. Racketeering doesn’t mean what you think it means.

DangitBobby 4y ago
Racketeering is when the only solution offered to you out of a problem someone created for you is to pay the person who created the problem. In the context of email: "you have to pay us to send your email because we have created a system in which only we can send email." Seems pretty close to racketeering. Anyway, telling someone they don't understand what something means is almost never a good way to start a conversation.
- Godel_unicode 4y ago
  That’s not what racketeering is. In order to be racketeering it must be extortative, fraudulent, or otherwise illegal. Your definition would make PG&E guilty of racketeering, which they are not. Selling fire insurance is also not racketeering. When someone is using a word incorrectly making them aware of that fact is important. They’re welcome to google it.
  - DangitBobby 4y ago
    How would selling fire insurance or an electric hookup match my definition? For fire insurance to be racketeering the ones selling the insurance have to be the ones starting the fires. For PG&E... IDK they'd have to have invented work (J/s)? From the Wikipedia: > Originally and often still specifically, racketeering may refer to an organized criminal act in which the perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket. It's unlikely (IMO) that GGP meant that they thought it would literally meet the legal definition of racketeering in a court room, more that the situation with email can be described in terms of the textbook definition. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering

DangitBobby 4y ago

Racketeering is when the only solution offered to you out of a problem someone created for you is to pay the person who created the problem. In the context of email: "you have to pay us to send your email because we have created a system in which only we can send email." Seems pretty close to racketeering. Anyway, telling someone they don't understand what something means is almost never a good way to start a conversation.

Godel_unicode 4y ago
That’s not what racketeering is. In order to be racketeering it must be extortative, fraudulent, or otherwise illegal. Your definition would make PG&E guilty of racketeering, which they are not. Selling fire insurance is also not racketeering. When someone is using a word incorrectly making them aware of that fact is important. They’re welcome to google it.
- DangitBobby 4y ago
  How would selling fire insurance or an electric hookup match my definition? For fire insurance to be racketeering the ones selling the insurance have to be the ones starting the fires. For PG&E... IDK they'd have to have invented work (J/s)? From the Wikipedia: > Originally and often still specifically, racketeering may refer to an organized criminal act in which the perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket. It's unlikely (IMO) that GGP meant that they thought it would literally meet the legal definition of racketeering in a court room, more that the situation with email can be described in terms of the textbook definition. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering