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Obama: Sony Pictures has made a "mistake" to abandon plans to broadcast comedy satire "The Interview"

Obama: Response about hackers in Sony Pictures

US President Barack Obama on Friday (12/19/2014), argues Sony Pictures has made a "mistake" to abandon plans to broadcast comedy satire "The Interview", after cyber attacks blamed on North Korea orchestrated.

 Sony Pictures has made a "mistake" to abandon plans to broadcast comedy satire "The Interview"


"If Sony talk to me first," Obama said in the conference room of the White House. "(If so), I would say to them, 'Do not follow a pattern where you are intimidated by this criminal attack'," he continued.

Obama held a press conference just after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said North Korea was behind the cyber attacks on fiction movie that tells the story of the murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Cancellation is online movie starring Seth Rogen and James Franco was done after major cinema chains States and Canada refused play this movie, following the threat of hackers to anyone wanting to watch this movie.

Asked his opinion about Sony's decision, Obama quickly replied, "Yes, I think they made a mistake." Sony's decision, he said, sending a bad signal has been ongoing self-Censorship in the entertainment industry.

"We can not be in the community with some dictator in some other place can begin to impose censorship here, in the United States," Obama said. "Mindless if someone could intimidate friends released the satire, imagine what they would do when they see a document or news reports that they do not like."

Hackers have spread e-mail embarrassing hacks among their personnel, who joked with racial insensitivity about Obama movie taste. The e-mail conversation occurred between Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, who are both already apologized publicly.

E-mail the two of them are among the items that hacked from Sony. The other matter is the screenplay that has not been aired and data on salaries and employee medical records Sony.

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