Discussion: Obama: Sony 'Made A Mistakte' After Pulling Movie After Hack, Threats

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Glad to see Obama make an impassioned defense of free speech here, he’s been kind of awesome in this post-election/pre-Congress interim.

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“They caused a lot of damage, and we will respond,” he said. “We will
respond proportionately and we’ll respond in a place and time and manner
that we choose.”

Yep, the North Korean film industry is really fucked now. It’s first feature film, "The Brilliant Comrade Watches The Glorious Revolutionary Paint Dry,’ will never see the light of day.

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“We will respond proportionately and we’ll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose.”

Using my Star Trek thesaurus this essentially means “revenge is a dish best served cold”

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Was not strictly fear on Sony/Japan’s part. Japan is still dealing with
issues from WWII referent to Korea(s) from ‘comfort women’
to rape, torture etc. N Korea in turn holds a number of
Japanese. Asians focus on loss of face/collective sensitivity
in a manner that differs from US. I don’t see this as a
precedent.

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Maybe Sony can make a movie about not making a movie and then the sequel can be the previous undone movie.
Just the idea of that would make it a must see.

Scary movie vs. Godzilla vs. Tiny Dic-tator.