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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by eli on Saturday December 20, 2014 @11:32AM (#8777034)
The free speech angle always seemed like a stretch. Isn't Sony free to release or not release movies as they see fit?
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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by walshemj on Saturday December 20, 2014 @11:41AM (#8777060)
And Hollywood could have pulled the prediction of Casablanca to avoid upsetting Germany and the pro Nazi german americans - and there was serious pressure put on Hollywood to do this.
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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by nerfhammer on Saturday December 20, 2014 @06:39PM (#8778381)
source? Casablanca was produced in 1942 and released in 1943
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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by walshemj on Sunday December 21, 2014 @11:02AM (#8780003)
the book describing the making of Casablanca is quite explicit about the pressures the appeasers and American Nazis put on Hollywood.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Making-Casablanca-Bogart-Bergman...

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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by nerfhammer on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:22PM (#8785623)
Such pressures may have existed in the late 30's, but I don't see how there could have been any pressure to "pull production" of Casablanca for the sake of not offending Nazi germany given that its production was well after the US had entered the war. As far as I can tell Warner Brothers had only first heard of the script by January 1942.
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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by lukifer on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:17PM (#8777163)
It's not a 1st amendment issue, but it is a free speech issue. Sony (and the theaters) were coerced by threats of violence.
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Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig... by eli on Saturday December 20, 2014 @04:17PM (#8777965)
And now they're being coerced the other way by the President of the United States. Why is that different?
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