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Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Tuesday, July 02 2013 @ 08:55 PM EDT |
Well, who knows - they might have a patent on calling out
trolls in a blog. It wouldn't even be the stupidest
patent they've got.
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Ma Lemming: If all your friends jumped off a cliff
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 07:37 PM EDT |
According to wikepedia Wikipedia,
" Blackmail is an act, often a crime, involving unjustified threats to make
a gain or cause loss to another unless a demand is met.[1][2] It may be defined
as coercion involving threats of physical harm, __threat of criminal
prosecution__, or threats for the purposes of taking the person's money or
property"
but it wasn't that helpfull, it mostly ties blackmail to violent crimes, not to
verbal actions. The paragraph about the USA only cites this:
"United States[edit]
The offense of blackmail is created by 18 U.S.C. § 873 which provides:
"Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not
informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or
receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both."[32]" - so not about
taking legal action by the individual itself
The closes was under the English Law notes:
"Professor Griew said that the word "menaces" could conceivably
include:[13]
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a threat of prosecution
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However the Dutch equivalent of blackmail (Chantage) on Wikipedia include citing
outlawing of using the tread of legal action to make people behave in a desired
way.
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