During his final press conference of 2014, President Obama said that Sony Pictures had "made a mistake" by pulling The Interview from theaters after threats from a group of now-confirmed North Korean hackers.
Obama first addressed the issue of cyber terrorism during an ABC interview, after Sony had already announced it was pulling the movie from theaters.
On Friday, however, Obama stood up for the First Amendment, saying we cannot have a society in which "some dictator someplace" can impose censorship on U.S. companies.
"If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like, or news reports that they don’t like," Obama said.
"Even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended.
"That’s not who we are, that’s not what America is about."
