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Right?! This annoyed the hell out of me when i saw the vid on youtube. It sucks his videos are getting taken down, but to my mind he loses intergity by playing it up as blackmail. Extortion is bad enough, why not call it like it is?

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Extortion is a worse crime than blackmail generally, in my opinion, ethically speaking. Extortion is using one's power and force to threaten harm to someone in some way if not paid, while blackmail is using knowledge of information to do the same. Extortion is the more "violent" and violating act. Either way, they're pretty similar, though

Your post is extremely confusing and bizarre to me.

You perceive one to be dramatically worse than the other? I don't.. I don't think he's using incorrect terminology to play up the severity of what happened. It's more likely he simply made a mistake.

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