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Gamergate and Sony
Dec. 18th, 2014 08:46 amAs you may have heard, Sony pictures has decided to pull their new movie "The Interview" because of anonymous emailed threats. I'm first going to agree whole-heartedly with Chris Kluwe:
Internet death threat against woman - "Oh that's just boys being boys, deal with it."
Internet death threat against movie - "SRS BIZNESS"
I'm also going to say that, although I would probably not go see the movie (stupid people behaving stupidly is not my idea of entertainment), pulling the movie over death threats is the height of gutlessness. But as somebody else said:
This is the logical conclusion of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror- a pants wetting population that soils it britches at the slightest hint of danger that even baseless threats will keep us from doing what we do best, which is sit on our fat asses eating candy and popcorn while watching tv.
And one more thought: Somewhere in America right now, in a Regal Cinema or a Carmike, someone has a mop in their hand and is making the floors a little less sticky. That person would have come to work regardless of whether or not a dipshit comedy about North Korea was released. That person is the hero.
Internet death threat against woman - "Oh that's just boys being boys, deal with it."
Internet death threat against movie - "SRS BIZNESS"
I'm also going to say that, although I would probably not go see the movie (stupid people behaving stupidly is not my idea of entertainment), pulling the movie over death threats is the height of gutlessness. But as somebody else said:
This is the logical conclusion of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror- a pants wetting population that soils it britches at the slightest hint of danger that even baseless threats will keep us from doing what we do best, which is sit on our fat asses eating candy and popcorn while watching tv.
And one more thought: Somewhere in America right now, in a Regal Cinema or a Carmike, someone has a mop in their hand and is making the floors a little less sticky. That person would have come to work regardless of whether or not a dipshit comedy about North Korea was released. That person is the hero.
