President Obama chastises Sony over cancelling of 'The Interview'

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BraveNewWorld said:

Thank you, President Obama, for having some backbone on this issue. Kazi Hirai's, and by extension Sony's, cowardice is shameful.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/obama-sony_n_6354836.html

"We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States," Obama said. "If somebody's able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary they don't like, or news reports they don't like. Or even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don't want to offend the sensibilities of someone whose sensibilities probably need to be offended."

But you can have a society where some rich powerful iditos can dictate what people are allowed to do or not?
Okay...

And about the documentary they dont like or news repots they dont like. Well YOU usually go and threaten people so they stop doing it and instead release stuff that was approved by you.

CosmicSex said:

Aj_habfan said:
Whether Sony officially cancelled it or not, it wouldn't have mattered considering all major theatres already decided against showing it.

This.  But, I understand the theathers making the decision they did for safety concerns. 

Its less safety concerns and more image.

They probably dont care if some random guys die. What they care for is if the public starts to HATE them because they ignored the threat which would result in bad publicity and less profit.