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[cptskippy]

I'm not a lawyer but I would say so. The question isn't what they did but rather is it ransom or wrong?

[quadrangle → cptskippy]

Let's clear up a misunderstanding: ransoms aren't necessarily and always wrong. There's indeed some implication that way, but you could just as well argue that this type of ransom is justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system#Ransom...