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What ‘The Interview’ controversy says about the cost of threatening free speech

Jan 1, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, World Affairs

Published: Daily Dot (January 1, 2015)

Regardless of whether North Korea was actually responsible for hacking Sony, America can learn an interesting lessons from the brouhaha surrounding the release of The Interview. As a result of this incident, we have learned that the Internet—which was used by the Guardians of Peace in an attempt to intimidate other people—can also stoke the flames of public curiosity in ways that can be profitable to corporations which might otherwise succumb to a knee-jerk instinct to be intimidated.... Read Original Article

A Call To Dispense With Our Culture of Fear

Dec 23, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, mic, Terrorism, World Affairs

Published: Good Men Project (December 23, 2014)

Matthew Rozsa offers three suggestions to protect both the police and the communities that fear them and calls for both groups to demand that politicians enact them.

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Believe it or not, Michael Brown and Eric Garner share one very important quality with the pair of NYPD officers who were brutally slain earlier this week:

Both of them live in a society that forces them to fear for their lives.... Read Original Article

Stop criticizing ‘The Interview’ for killing Kim Jong-un’

Dec 22, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, mic, Terrorism, World Affairs

Published: Daily Dot (December 22, 2014)

Say what you will about The Interview, but let’s abandon the notion that the filmmakers were wrong for their fictionalized depiction of Kim Jong-un’s death. The reason is simple: It is healthy to assert that Kim Jong-un deserves to die.

Kim Jong-un is not just some interchangeable foreign leader.... Read Original Article

What Does Sony’s Pulling ‘The Interview’ Mean For Free Speech?

Dec 18, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, mic, Terrorism, World Affairs

Published: Good Men Project (December 18, 2014)

Matthew Rozsa believes North Korea’s threat to Sony challenges the very essence of our democratic freedoms.

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Is it too much to expect Americans who expect to profit from the First Amendment to stand up for its underlying ethos?

Of course, due emphasis must be placed on the phrase “underlying ethos” in the aforementioned sentence.... Read Original Article