Quote: (12-19-2014 08:09 PM)ManAbout Wrote:
Quote: (12-19-2014 06:59 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
In my opinion, what a commander-in-chief should have done was found a way to mobilize whatever forces he had to say "This will not go on in our country. We will find a way to show this film."
A corporation decided that it was not in it's best interest to show the film. Your position is that Obama should have intervened and insisted that the company show the film? Really?
This is what he did say.
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"Sony's a corporation. It suffered significant damage, there were threats against its employees," Obama said at his annual year-end news conference from the White House. "I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake."
He added that he wished "they'd spoken to me first," so he could tell them not to set a bad precedent by caving into hackers' threats.
Sounds pretty reasonable. I don't see him caving in to N Korea anywhere.
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But beyond that, an infrastructure should already be in place to prevent things like this from happening.
So you are advocating that the government own and operate the internet infrastructure? Do you have any idea what having an airtight virtual border would entail in practical terms? I don't think you do. If you leave your front door open and a thief comes in and steals everything in your house, do you blame Obama and the government?
If the pres is going to pussyfoot around and mention it as you pointed out he should take a stand instead of just pandering around. That's all that guy ever does.
He's the "leader" of the "free" world.