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This interviewee's criticism is not narrowly focused against Sony, but the entire reaction: theater chains, Sony, media, the American psyche, a "lose our shit"

• sosuke 12y ago
  The biggest issue to be addressed is the last one, how do you change the legal liability. If I have a shop, that is receiving public threats, I choose to remain open, you choose to visit even after hearing the threats. Something happens to you, I'm not liable, you chose to visit. Forgive me, but I think about the abortion clinics, the people working and volunteering go even in the face of threats, even though people get shot by doing what they believe in. The clinics aren't held liable for the attacks. The theaters should not be held liable. How should that work, how can we change it?
• deciplex 12y ago
  > It would take a wider cultural consensus to respond in solidarity: theaters don't cave, studios don't cave, moviegoers don't cave, media doesn't feed panics, the legal system doesn't require cowering as a liability issue. We're not there yet... but maybe we can get there, with discussion and experience. Considering that the American public has been sprinting in the opposite direction for the last decade, I wouldn't hold my breath. It takes a serious and abiding commitment to total cowardice in the face of adversity to make up excuses for admitted torturers and war criminals - I don't think a single person is going to find their stones now over a film that apparently no one was going to watch anyway.