This is the only rational explanation as to why they would add a criminal extortionist
Extortion is a criminal offense. There are no exceptions, not even in police. But, I would rather call this stupidity. Everyone can make mistake.
Being stupid in breaking the law is still breaking the law. If I were to accept that someone was being "stupid" when breaking the law, I would first need to see regret to their actions, and accepting what they did was wrong (ideally very shortly after getting 'caught' - otherwise these become not credible), to my knowledge, lauda has done neither of these, and lauda continues to say what he did was not extortion (eg, he refuses to acknowledge what he did was wrong). The locking of the relevant threads and the leaving of negative trust against shorena (and other attempts to discredit shorena) is in my eyes an attempt to cover up his criminal activity.
If you ask my opinion, lauda does not think what he did was a "stupid mistake", I think that lauda thinks he made a "stupid mistake" in getting caught/exposed.
thread in to a discussion about Lauda would be somewhat impressive if it weren't so predictable and tedious. Given the frequency of your foaming-at-the-mouth rants, were this real life I would be suggesting you get tested for rabies.