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0 pointsHeyLaughingBoy3y ago0 comments

> “criminal blackmail excludes legal process,”

They're saying that "If you don't pay me $X, I'll tell your wife I slept with you" is not illegal, so it doesn't constitute criminal blackmail.

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I’d probably run that assertion by a lawyer before I lived by it.

Pay me or I will ruin your reputation is very much blackmail. Investigative journalism would become potentially extremely profitable if it wasn't.

Of course it's blackmail. The question is if it's criminal or not.

Blackmail is a crime, so this would be a pretty safe bet.

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I’d probably run that assertion by a lawyer before I lived by it.

Pay me or I will ruin your reputation is very much blackmail. Investigative journalism would become potentially extremely profitable if it wasn't.

Of course it's blackmail. The question is if it's criminal or not.

Blackmail is a crime, so this would be a pretty safe bet.

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