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To be extortion, the threatened action has to be illegal. Threats are allowed. Your boss saying "do X or I'll fire you" is not extortion.
by fallingknife 4y ago
To be extortion, the threatened action has to be illegal. Threats are allowed. Your boss saying "do X or I'll fire you" is not extortion.
- VikingCoder 4y agoHow did you get that idea? > Remember, the word blackmail refers to a crime wherein the threat is a revelation of information, extortion refers to a crime wherein the threat is either physical, violent or an unfair use of power.
- D13Fd 4y ago> To be extortion, the threatened action has to be illegal. Generally no, that's not true. For example: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.039.023.000..HTM https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.039.02... "Theft by extortion. . . . if he intentionally obtains or withholds property of another by threatening to . . . expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule"
- anigbrowl 4y agoPedantry rarely wins arguments, especially outside courtrooms.