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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Nicole Perlr 🌻th

    "The right to blackmail is deducible from the general property right in one's person and knowledge and the right to disseminate or not disseminate that knowledge. How can the right to blackmail be denied?" - Murray Rothbard.https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1392896596208078849 …

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    Nicole Perlr 🌻thVerified account @nicoleperlroth
    Can confirm that Colonial Pipeline paid its extortionists 75 Bitcoin on Monday- nearly $5 million- to recover stolen data.
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      1. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 13 May 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        blackmail is probably the wrong word for these kinds of attacks, this is more of a data hostage situation

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      2. Juan Jiménez A.‏ @jjimeneza1972 13 May 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        That is an actual quote? (I never know with Rothbard)

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      3. Brian Doherty‏ @brianmdoherty 13 May 2021
        Replying to @jjimeneza1972 @HeerJeet

        Yes, but of zero relevance to this situation, which is extortion, not blackmail, and involves harm to other people's property, not merely speaking or publishing information known to you, which is what Rothbard meant by "blackmail."

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      2. Brian Doherty‏ @brianmdoherty 13 May 2021
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        You know that that quote is of no relevance to this situation. At least I hope you do.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2021
        Replying to @brianmdoherty

        I feel like the same logic applies: an exchange of withholding or returning information for money. I'd be curious to know if Rothbard would push it that far.

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      1. Jimmy Jim James‏ @MadnessVs 13 May 2021
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        SCOUTS says if it fits in the mail then it's speech and can not be restricted. It is why it is illegal to restricted what can be mailed.

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      1. Rowen‏ @SCBasenji 13 May 2021
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        The owners of Colonial, the Koch Bros, have made killing during Covid. They're seemingly profiting from every shortage...

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      2. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 13 May 2021
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        It's lucky that there's no money in philosophy, otherwise there'd be blackmail in philosophy. There are so many hidden problems with everyone's view. If you could make money by promising not to publish a refutation of someone's view ...

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      3. NickUrfe‏ @UrfeNick 13 May 2021
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        Russell: "Nice concept script you've got there..." [Walks away whistling Barber of Seville]

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