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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Dec 2014
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      I'm pleased that the latest installment of "Seth Rogen plays a bumbling man-child" got hacked and canceled, actually http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/12/interview-north-koreafrancorogansony.html …

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    2. Tom Watson‏Verified account @tomwatson 20 Dec 2014
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      @mtracey Lotta literary types felt the same way about Salman Rushdie in '89. Stupid dream novel, attack on religion, no loss to culture etc.

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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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      @tomwatson Massive corporate studio's multi-million dollar production not quite comparable with a lone novelist laboring away

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    4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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      @tomwatson If a movie was canceled due to the threats of, say, a vengeful Sony exec, would it constitute a profound attack on free speech?

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    5. Tom Watson‏Verified account @tomwatson 20 Dec 2014
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      @mtracey Free speech is actually weaker argument - to me it's a successful attack on culture.

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    6. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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      @tomwatson An attack on insulated, stupid, profit-obsessed, lowest-common-denominator corporate culture. None of which Rushdie represented.

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    7. Tom Watson‏Verified account @tomwatson 20 Dec 2014
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      @mtracey You're making an elitist argument. Those same forces pulled Rushdie's book because of exactly the same kinds of threats.

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    8. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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      @tomwatson Not really. "The Interview" was the product of elitist corporate trash culture, unlike Rushdie's work.

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    9. Tom Watson‏Verified account @tomwatson 20 Dec 2014
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      @mtracey You're making the highbrow "worthy art vs. trash" argument - but I don't think it's a good one.

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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      @tomwatson Studio execs determine what is worthy v. what's trash all the time. Are they committing grave affronts in making these decisions?

      12:20 PM - 20 Dec 2014
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        2. Tom Watson‏Verified account @tomwatson 20 Dec 2014
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          @mtracey Sure! And we as critics do too - it's when terror/fear forces a decision to shut off culture (good or bad) that we all lose.

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 20 Dec 2014
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          @tomwatson What about when fearful studio execs decide to shut off culture, i.e. not make a movie, out of terror at lost profits?

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