Obama criticizes Sony for pulling "The Interview"

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What? He has no business even addressing this beyond "We're looking into the criminal violations committed".

It was a private business decision to protect their company. And the deal was basically set when the theater chain - the ones who really killed the project - decided not to show it.

Let's be real - he probably decided to pile on Sony because of the racist comments about him in the e-mail.

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We're outraged when North Korea scares Sony out of airing a crappy movie, but don't bat an eye as Israel murders civilians en masse. Okay.

*Comes into completely unrelated thread* "Okay, but did you know Joos did a thing"

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Says the self-identified Communist. I'll just leave that hanging there. As they often did!

All those North Korean dissenters murdered or worked to death in labor camps were clearly bourgeois trash.

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What? He has no business even addressing this beyond "We're looking into the criminal violations committed".

It was a private business decision to protect their company. And the deal was basically set when the theater chain - the ones who really killed the project - decided not to show it.

Let's be real - he probably decided to pile on Sony because of the racist comments about him in the e-mail.

Well, it's also a matter of a foreign state intimidating American companies into doing certain things- in the United States. In a way, it's an infringement on our sovereignty.

Absolutely - and that's why he should be announcing what concrete steps we'll be taking to punish the perpetrators, and to beef up our cybersecurity, rather than hectoring a private business taking a measure to protect their interests - especially since they weren't the ones preventing people from seeing this movie.