As you may have already heard. Sony produced a motion picture. It has North Korea in it. Sony was hacked BY N. Korea whom promised all kinds of ill shit on the US if the movie is released. Hollywood being a coward entity bowed to North Korea and WILL NOT release the movie. Even Liberal sites like WNYC is reporting that this was ridiculous decision. Audio and article: Cyber Expert Peter Singer: Sony's Embarrassment Has Set a 'Horrible' Precedent - The Takeaway
Sony is in a "damned if they do, and damned if they don't" spot here. Sure, everyone is jumping on the "poor decision Sony!" bandwagon, but nobody has stopped to think what would happen if the film was released and a theatre or two or three were attacked. There would be so many lawsuits filed against Sony, it would set world records for how fast they were filed. And speaking of lawsuits, I smell a rather large one coming on the heels of this. You'd think after the PlayStation network fiasco back in 2011, Sony would have learned their lesson. Apparently not.
They set a horrible precedent, for sure. On the other hand, if the movie had been released and NK blew up a theater somewhere--which would be a stretch, seeing as how that would be attacking the US directly--then they'd certainly have some liability somewhere along the line.
Aw, Georgie's taking a stand. He's got his pal Amy's back, and he's certainly acting out of self-interest to keep those distribution channels open. Curiously, none of his lionized liberal Tinseltown friends are stepping up. I'm loving this.
Clooney is right. We are allowing foreign nations to take away our freedom on our own soil. We all know that is so important we made it Amendment #1, freedom of speech and expression. NK took that away from Sony, and from Sony's possible customers because Sony let them do it. Where will this go next? What right do you want taken away by a foreign nation next?
