I'm sure you all have your thoughts about this whole farce.
Here's the blog entry I wrote on the subject, but I'll try to summarize my thoughts here.
1. Amy Pascal is so fucking fired. She's done such an impossibly bad job at preserving the company's integrity and reputation that there's no chance that Sony will recover until she and several other Sony execs are gone.
2. Heads need to roll at the theater chains as well. Any company that would rather lose money by refusing to show a movie than by investing in better security for its customers and employees is a company that needs a change in management.
3. This was the very first international cyber war in America's history, and we lost it before we could even have a chance at retaliation. All because the private sector decided that they wanted to surrender.
4. All these media conglomerates have no problem dispensing jingoistic rhetoric and putting out stories that show how great America is. But when the time comes to actually do something about defending our freedom of speech -- the very same freedom of speech that these companies couldn't possibly exist without -- they turn tail and run.
5. I can understand the risk to theatergoers, because even one theater getting attacked is one too many. But the individual theater owners and their customers should have the choice whether to take precautions and go ahead or play it safe and do without. That choice was denied to everyone by a handful of corporate overlords, and that's just wrong.
6. At this point, all the tanks and jets we've bought are a waste of taxpayer dollars. It's more important now than ever to revitalize our infrastructure to make sure that America can keep up with our online security.
7. To those companies like Fox and Paramount, who were in no way connected to the hack or threatened by the hackers and still pulled their North Korea-related projects anyway, there is no excuse. They are cowards, plain and simple.
What are your thoughts?
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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.
