Obama criticizes Sony for pulling "The Interview"

[Simfan34]

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.

[Simfan34]

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.

Well it's a bad precedent to have set. Did he say the other things you mentioned? I feel like he did.