Person A is blackmailed by person B, with blackmail material P.
Person A can respond not only by
1) going public about B’s threat to reveal P, and what B tried to blackmail A to do, but can also*
2) release P, and thereby push society towards different norms/standards, where P and materials like it are not blackmail material.
*Theoretically
(The idea behind option 2 comes from an article calling for Jeff Bezos to go with option 2, in regards to him recently being blackmailed by the National Enquirer.)
A possibility I didn’t see discussed:
Person A is blackmailed by person B, with blackmail material P.
Person A can respond not only by
1) going public about B’s threat to reveal P, and what B tried to blackmail A to do, but can also*
2) release P, and thereby push society towards different norms/standards, where P and materials like it are not blackmail material.
*Theoretically
(The idea behind option 2 comes from an article calling for Jeff Bezos to go with option 2, in regards to him recently being blackmailed by the National Enquirer.)