🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo You can just Google this stuff.

Michael Cohen went to jail for violating campaign finance law because it was done secretly with the purpose of influencing the election. John Edwards was prosecuted for the same thing.

If the prosecution can prove that Donald Trump directed Cohen to do that and was aware of it, he is guilty of the same crime and would presumably face similar consequences.

@freemo

If she directly threatened to make it public unless he paid her, then that's blackmail.

The way these things are usually worked out is that the woman shops her story around to tabloids in a manner so that the target will learn of it. Then the tabloid buys the exclusive rights to the story and it becomes an intellectual property deal and the tabloid then works it out with the target (like selling the rights to them). That's how they usually avoid blackmail law.

That's how Trump did it with another woman, Karen McDougal. (Maybe that's where the whole "Karen" meme started?)

A similar thing happened to David Letterman a couple of decades ago. A boyfriend of his mistress wrote a screenplay about a famous TV personality who had a mistress that exactly paralleled Letterman's situation. He then tried to sell the screenplay directly to Letterman.

Letterman turned the guy into the cops rather than paying the blackmail money and the story was made public.

@freemo There is more information on the just-shared posts that should help explain further. Thanks for your support and for caring about digital rights!

@freemo https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/tell-uks-house-lords-protect-end-end-encryption-online-safety-bill#:~:text=opposed%20the%20final%20version

“The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case. We used to say that you could identify phishing attacks because the emails look a certain way. That no longer works.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/29/ai-chatbots-making-it-harder-to-spot-phishing-emails-say-experts

@freemo Let the poets line up and take inspiration.

@freemo You might be right about the defintion, but I also think blackmail requires a threat to be made. The hush money may have been paid in the absence of a threat.

I've been a member of the xerces society for about two years and I'm really happy with their work. They are a charitable organization focused on invertebrate conservation. If you become a member not only will you be supporting a good cause but their magazine is amazing. They also have lectures and other events you can attend.

Invertebrates are often overlooked so I'm glad they're out there.

(If anyone know of an ant conservation group lemme know~)

https://www.xerces.org/

@freemo *Applauses with the pinkies* ;)

“ Imagine picking up a glass of what you think is apple juice, only to take a sip and discover that it’s actually ginger ale. Even though you usually love the soda, this time it tastes terrible. That’s because context and internal states, including expectation, influence how all animals perceive and process sensory information … anticipating the wrong stimulus leads to a surprise, and a negative response.“
https://www.quantamagazine.org/brains-speed-up-perception-by-guessing-whats-next-20190502/
#neuroscience #ScienceOutreach

@freemo @mmm @futurebird that's not just a metaphor. The East Germans put up a wall for a reason. All the hard working highly motivated people were getting out of the Communist side. I know people whose parents did exactly that.

People were not allowed to leave the Soviet bloc for the same reason: all the wrong people would leave.

Cuba was happy to let their prison population leave during the boatlift in the 80s. Those people had negative social value, so good riddance.