It took a day or two for the reality of the situation to sink in, but now at least a few members of Hollywood's elite are ready to come out and condemn the recent Sony Hacks as full-on state sponsored international cyber-terrorism. Iconic A-listers/political activists, Sean Penn and George Clooney, have both suggested that North Korea's ability to successfully blackmail an American cooperation to alter the way it does business is going to have long lasting geopolitical ramifications. While the newly married Batman points out that this could happen to any giant cooperation in the private sector as well as the government, Penn insists that the decision to can Seth Rogen and James Franco's Interview this Christmas gives Isis the green light to launch similar operations in the future.
While George Clooney doesn't really condemn the modern media for attacking the salacious bits of news proffered by the North Korean sponsored Sony Hackers, Batman is a little more than disappointed that no one seemed to focus their reporting on the more pertinent information at the center of the story: An American Company was under attack by state funded cyber-terrorists.
During a recent interview with Deadline, Clooney pointed out that instead of getting Americans miffed about a foreign country trying to supersede our censorship laws through cooperate blackmail, they just worked on trying to get Amy Pascal fired:
"With just a little bit of work, you could have found out that it wasn't just probably North Korea; it was North Korea.
"What happened here is part of a much larger deal...a huge deal. And people are still talking about dumb emails.
"Understand what is going on right now, because the world just changed on your watch, and you weren't even paying attention."
Clooney goes to great lengths in the interview to explain that the precedent established by these attacks will, no doubt, effect the way everyone does business for years to come:
"What happens if a newsroom decides to go with a story, and a country or an individual or corporation decides they don't like it?
"Forget the hacking part of it. You have someone threaten to blow up buildings, and all of a sudden everybody has to bow down.
"We have a new paradigm, a new reality, and we're going to have to come to real terms with it all the way down the line."
For Clooney's Hollywood peer, Sean Penn, this isn't just about Kim Jung-Un trying to tell Tristar what movies they can and can't release -- it's about telling the Isis that it's open season on American business.
In a statement Penn sent to Mother Jones he advised that we go ahead and sit down with other world leaders to determine how to handle this as a global community before it affects international relations any more than it already has:
"This week, the distributors who wouldn't show The Interview and Sony have sent ISIS a commanding invitation.
"I believe ISIS will accept the invitation...Pandora's box is officially open.
"If we don't get the world on board to see that this is a game changer, if this hacking doesn't frighten the Chinese and the Russians, we're in for a very different world, a very different country, community, and a very different culture."
Who knew we wouldn't have to wait for a malevolent supercomputer with artificial intelligence to be invented to have the internet destroy the world as we know it.
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