SONY Pictures succumbs to their new master.
Just like they'd do if the Catholic Church objected to a movie.
Cannot let 2nd amendment people defending free speech look like heros. The government and powers that be would rather succumb to Kim than see that happening.
Disclaimer: I know the following proposal will not work because the left likes KJU and hates Christians...
So next time Hollywood makes a movie mocking Christians, traditional values, and patriotism, all we have to do is threaten to blow up the theater and they’ll completely pull the movie?
No, they're canceling "The Interview" because they had their system hacked and their dirty laundry aired.
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by New Regency was just cancelled and Paramount is forbidding theaters from showing Team America: World Peace.
We are now officially a country of pussies.
IOW...they are being blackmailed.
It's pretty funny really.....We've got big time LIBS being expose for talking racist, sexist, homophobic..etc..etc...
Let the e-mails free!!!
Caving in to the enemy.
Obama’s foreign policy in the last 6 years. Now Sony is following by example. If we have a spineless government, then, how can anyone in the country, or any company, feel secure in what they do? Freedom of speech is valid, but only if North Korea and other tin-pot dictators say so.
No. They’re postponing it because terror attacks were threatened and none of the big chains wanted to be the site of the {Our Brand} Christmas Massacre. And you can’t really blame them, sure PROBABLY nothing will, PROBABLY it’s all a bluff. But if your job is to protect the brand your job is to say “no, we aren’t opening this movie on Christmas”.
This would have been fine if they had hacked movies like...Steel Magnolias, Bridges of Madison County, The Color Purple, etc. ...movies that should have never been released...
There’s more behind this than anyone is letting on. Now they’ve cancelled at least one movie about NK that was in production and Paramount doesn’t want theaters to show “Team America”.
I personally think it has a lot more to do with what is in the emails than anything. Things like illegal Hollywood political activities, illegal fundraising and coordination etc.
Message: If you don’t like how Hollywood treats your group, threaten to kill studio executives.
Its crazy.
No, it's more like the chubby bully kicking a corporate lawyer or CEO, which I guess the bully could get away with. Corporations aren't governments. they don't have armies and can't compel or wreak epic vengeance. They operate within a commercial-legal framework. So it's not surprising that foreign governments that work outside that framework can take advantage of them.
Look, I'm not an interventionist guy. I don't think the US should go around picking fights. But we're still the US. This is our country. When absurd little nations like North Korea try to smack us around, we have to respond in a way that makes it clear we're the big boys on campus. You can't let them win. Ever.
What "us"? Take it up with the Japanese. It's their company. Even if it weren't, I'd have a hard time with the identification of our country with Hollywood's trash merchants.
You don’t cower.
If you are convinced the terrorist threats are legitimate, you still move forward.
Make it a travelling road show.
Use large capacity arenas where we already know how to set up special event security to ensure the safety of the public.
You put your best cyber team on alert and work with fandango, and visa, and mc so you can track any attempts to infiltrate the purchase records.
You work with the media to ensure live shots of huge lines, packed 18,000 seat arenas, and people laughing on their way out.
You mirror the network for all the various production companies associated with Carrell’s now benched film. You declare publicly that we won’t be cowed, that the film will go forward, and you set the trap.
And then as soon as you confirm conclusively where the attacks are coming from, you go public, give details, and turn loose the NSA, the DIA, and if necessary even Anon.
You fry their networks, and the networks of any complicit country, corporation, organization, or individual.
You put a Burke (or a few) off their coast at 12.1 miles and inform them that if even an unauthorized gull takes flight it will come down, and that if so much as a stray dog crosses the fence into the DMZ that it will meet Mr. Tomahawk.
The rights of the American people are inviolable, and we will defend them with every tool, every man, and every penny at our disposal. If the Japanese corporations who make their millions and billions through the exercise of those rights protest, inform them they are welcome to leave...
By caving to the terrorists and cancelling the movie, Sony is saying that they have absolutely no confidence in the Obama administration’s ability (or desire?) to protect the citizens of this country.
hissy fit?
No, this was a serious cyber attack, accompanied by threats of terrorism. Our country was attacked, obviously by Kim Kong-un.
If we had a President rather than an America hater, every internet connected computer in NK would do nothing more than play the Star Spangled Banner over & over.
I was wondering if not only did Sony cave, but was Obama’s Cuba move due to pressure from NK. Maye North Korea has proof of what we already know.
The theaters have been told by their lawyers not to show the movie so Sony cannot distribute it. It all comes down to money, nothing more.