Obama on Sony pulling The Interview: 'They made a mistake'

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President Obama speaks to press at the White House

 

Q: What does a proportional response look like to the hack? Did Sony make the right response by pulling the film?

 

Obama: “Sony’s a corporation, it suffered significant damage, there were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they face.â€

 

“Yes, I think they made a mistake.â€

 

“In this interconnected digital world there … private sector and the public sector.

 

“Our first order of business is to … try to prevent those attacks from taking place.

 

“Everything that we can do at the government level to prevent these types of attacks. We’re coordinating with the private sector but we’re not even close to where we need to be.

 

“We need strong cybersecurity laws that provide for data sharing.â€

 

Obama : “We cannot have a society where some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. Because if somebody’s going to intimidate them for releasing a satirical movie, imagine what’s going to happen when there’s a documentary they don’t like.

 

“Even worse, if producers and distributors start engaging in self-censorship because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of somebody who frankly probably needs their sensibilities offended.

 

“That’s not who we are. That’s not who Americans are.

 

“Again, I’m sympathetic to Sony … but I wish they had spoken to me first.

 

“We’ll engage with not just the film industry but the news industry, the private sector.

 

“All of us need to anticipate that occasionally there are going to be breaches like this … but we can’t start changing our patterns of behavior anymore than we would stop going to a football game because there might be a terrorist attack.

 

“Anymore than Boston didn’t run its marathon this year because of the possibility that someone might try to call home.â€

 

“I think it says something about North Korea,†Obama says, that it would “mount an all-out attack over a satirical film … starring Seth Rogen.â€

 

“That gives you a sense of the regime we’re talking about here.â€

 

Asked about how the US will respond, Obama shuts down the line of questioning:

 

“We will respond, we will respond proportionally, and in a place and time that we choose. It’s not something that I will announce here today at this press conference.

 

“More broadly though this shows we need to cooperate [with international partners]. Right now it’s sort of the wild west. And part of the problem is you’ve got weak states that can engage in these kinds of attacks, you’ve got non-state actors … that’s part of what makes this issue so important.â€

 

He makes another push for Congress to draft a cybersecurity bill for information sharing between the government and private companies and organizations.

 

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[Irrelephant]

 

 

All of us need to anticipate that occasionally there are going to be breaches like this … but we can’t start changing our patterns of behavior anymore than we would stop going to a football game because there might be a terrorist attack.

 

as important as that statement is, I feel like netizen 4 know's what they're talking about too

 

 

 

4. [+98, -1] Could be a marketing tactic... they'll promote it like this and then actually release it.

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I agree. Just release it.

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It's funny that they "canceled" it and I still see the trailer every time there's a commercial break... Fishy.

[hyoyeon's lines in check]

I'm starting to think the real reason Sony pulled it is because

1. if violent/criminal action did occur, they could be liable

2. they want to stop more leaks coming out

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as important as that statement is, I feel like netizen 4 know's what they're talking about too

 

I'm starting to agree with this as well. Currently the hype over this movie is beyond anything we've seen, especially when before a lot of people just thought it would be a crappy or average movie.

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It's funny that they "canceled" it and I still see the trailer every time there's a commercial break... Fishy.

 

I'm starting to think the real reason Sony pulled it is because

1. if violent/criminal action did occur, they could be liable

2. they want to stop more leaks coming out

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm starting to agree with this as well. Currently the hype over this movie is beyond anything we've seen, especially when before a lot of people just thought it would be a crappy or average movie

 

 

 

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I'm starting to think the real reason Sony pulled it is because

1. if violent/criminal action did occur, they could be liable

2. they want to stop more leaks coming out

 

Yeah, it's better to be safe than sorry