Sony Hacked
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- omahadesigns0
I don't see how they thought they could release this movie and nothing bad could happen.
- ukit21
I think nb makes a fair point...I'm against censorship but I'm also not a fan of movies like this because it just seems like an excuse for people to indulge in dumb stereotypes about other cultures. The government has declared North Korea as the officially sanctioned enemy of America, so it's OK to indulge in the most racist anti-Asian humor about the people there...good luck doing the same thing with Jews, blacks or women.
Also the angry reaction of people at Sony's decision to cancel what was probably a really dumb tasteless comedy saying "the terrorists have won" or that it shows the decline of the country. OK I'm in favor of free speech but have some perspective, is this really the hill you choose to die on? It's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and at times it seems like Americans are in danger of blowing the issue out of proportion for ideological reasons just as much as North Koreans.
- sine0
- i_monk0
Am I alone in not believing for a minute North Korea was behind this?
- NK still on Windows XP, apparently this arrived from a non IE6 browserfadein11
- I don't believe...oey
- no. you're not alone.renderedred
- uan0
- ETM0
Are you daft? There have been SO MANY movies about the current American "situtation(s)":
Margin Call
Too Big To Fail
Up in the Air
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsFruitvale Station
Stop Loss
The Hurt Locker
Body of Lies
Syriana
Green ZoneLiterally off the top of my head... probably missed some great examples.
And that's mostly Hollywood stuff, not included great documentaries. Do you honestly think such issues are not expressed throughout art and media in the American culture everyday?... and I am not even American.
- < @oeyETM
- Yep, but these are American movies examining America, which is far more classy than American movies ridiculing others.nb
- ....others.nb
- nb - always on a high horse with no solid arguments.ETM
- You movies making fun of America? Like Borat and the Dictator, made with US studio funding.ETM
- Team America mocks the US as much as N. Korea.ETM
- Foreign cinema has been more and more frequently portraying Americans negatively, is the US losing their shit about it?ETM
- Ferris Buelers Day Off was a superb analysis of the death of the American Dreamfadein11
- thanks ETM!... Gonna cheek that!
But I meant Seth Rogan and James Franco!oey - Try Pineapple Express then :)ETM
- Seen that...oey
- prophetone1
bad things happen everyday, they knew what they were doing, the issue is they knew they were taking the piss and wussed out anyway. stick to your guns! it's just a movie for chr* st sakes.
why this is a special case now vs a history of bad comedies that happily stick poked powerful figures and was no bigs is a mystery... or is it? could be a convenient excuse as the bottom line is now affected. and a major movie company is super embarrassed over some leaks.
and many have already coined it an 'issue of national security' despite the pres himself suggesting that people head to theatres. and USDHS confirming no credible threats.
fact is, and no small thanks to the oversaturation of social media now, people are being manipulated into losing their sh*t.
on that token though, I take great offense to the suggestion that propaganda is all-powerful and someone like myself is too ignorant to realize the cause/effect. that we are all powerless to its influence. we're not all morans you know.
in the end, this whole scenario has been super interesting if only to witness in real-time how situations such as this explode into so many directions, in many cases bordering on the ridiculous.
- georgesIII0
So who's doing the hacking? the north koreans?
- Pango & Co.organicgrid
- Pangocorp™ukit2
- Lol I'm gonna use that namepango
- Miguex0
- I still don't think they'd risk prison for this. Makes no sense.monospaced
- Prison? for generating buzz over a movie? what's the penalty for that? a parking ticket?Miguex
- a slap on the hand and a warning?Miguex
- the hack was a real publicity stunt tooMilan
- Leaking thousands of SSNs of employees seems unnecessary for a publicity stuntukit2
- a public stunt to get a whole whopping 1 mil on opening day for a 44 mil productionmoldero
- talk about conspiracy theorists! You think a company like Sony would go to this level for a stupid movie?! That's the real crazy!formed
- have you seen the level Sony has taken their past commercials. yes, they go all the way.omg
- it seems to me that some of you think that the pr stunt for the movie and the hack are related for some reason?Miguex
- ernexbcn0
NK denied involvement.
Some embarrassing emails are surfacing now, they took 100 terabytes of data.
- fadein110
http://johnpilger.com/ </thread>
- ETM0
At least North Korea doesn't participate in this propaganda war with the West... oh right, it's EVERYWHERE. On the street, in schools... far more harmful than a Seth Rogan movie.
http://cmsimg.navytimes.com/apps…
- dude... this is just more US-made propaganda meant to make you think NK is badPonyBoy
- You think America doesn't have propaganda on the street and in schools?nb
- Is your argument, "North Korea does it, so why can't we?"nb
- Propaganda in schools? They can't even update a test let alone get teachers to voice an opinion on n Korea to childrenmonospaced
- There is propaganda to a degree everywhere. But yeah, pretty confident the US doesn't approach it anything like this.ETM
- living in a gulag is a good thing?...place is the earths anusyurimon
- hotroddy0
North Korea calls Obama a monkey. http://news.yahoo.com/north-kore…
- Bluejam0
Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
- PonyBoy0
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