Twenty-first century terrorism has entered a new phase.
It’s highly offensive and utterly mind-blowing. It comes in the form of threats to hack into people’s emails if they dare attend a movie — a movie, for crying out loud! — that portrays the North Korean goofball/dictator in a decidedly unflattering light.
This is what terrorism looks like in the Digital Age.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/media/the-interview-sony-theater-owners/index.html?hpt=hp_t2&hpt=hp_c2
The film in question is “The Interview.” It stars Seth Rogan and James Franco. Sony today cancelled the release of the film after major movieĀ chains declined to show the film because of terrorist threats by computer hackers.
The film is about an attempted assassination of Kim Jong Un, the bizarre North Korean dictator who succeeded his equally bizarre father, Kim Jong Il. It’s a comedy. It’s meant to make people laugh. It’s meant to poke fun at the reclusive Marxist government that operates in the shadows on the Korean Peninsula.
So now some mysterious Internet terrorists are telling American movie-goers that they cannot watch the film. What do they fear? That someone is going to see the film and then become motivated to try to do what is portrayed on the screen? That the movie is going to produce an assassin bent on killing Kim Jong Un?
Sony already has been hit by hackers reportedly angry over the film.
All of this has me absolutely bumfuzzled.