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I feel like that part (offering to withhold knowledge of criminal activities on the part of the blackmailee) should definitely be illegal and prosecutable altho it would be difficult by its very nature
The blackmailee is presumably going to do whatever is necessary to prevent that but it would be a satisfying turn of fate for the blackmailee to turn around and threaten to go to the cops if they can setup some kind of plea bargain but all that is way beyond my realm of competence
honestly, it's just a very shitty thing to do.
if they did a bad crime like pedophilia or embezzling from s charity, you should report that. if it's something harmless, then it's non of your business. if it's in between, then whatever. but letting a shitty person get away still horrible stuff because you got a cut? yhea, terrible. running an otherwise good person life because they did something they want hidden? yhea also not good.
So many shades of gray