Cenk Uygur
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Freedom Of Speech Has Huge Win In 2014. Sony Releases The Interview In Spite Of Hacking
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4:42Now Playing"At the end of November, eerily adept cybercriminals hacked into Sony's computer systems, paralyzed their operations, and tapped into a trove of hypersensitive internal information. After the attack (evidently over Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's North Korean satire The Interview), a steady flow of revelations — including top employees' salaries, nasty Hollywood hardball emails, and illicit movie downloads — trickled into news reports and file-sharing sites for almost a month. After Sony canceled The Interview's theatrical release, the thieves, dubbed Guardians of Peace, said the leaks would stop, but only if the movie stayed away from any and all screens. Despite this promise, tens of thousands of already-leaked documents continued to yield fruit, and Sony decided to release the film anyway."
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Cenk Uygur (), Ana Kasparian (), John Iadarola () and Ben Mankiewicz () discuss on The Young Turks. Who do you think hacked Sony? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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