Chris Rock: Sony thing is scary

Chris Rock finds the recent Sony controversy “scary”.

Hackers have been releasing stolen emails on the Internet written by high-level executives from the entertainment conglomerate for about a month now. A US government source told Reuters Wednesday officials believe North Korea was behind the cyber terrorism, and on the same day Sony told the public they will not release their new movie The Interview, which is a comedy involving North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.

Top Five funnyman Chris finds the entire controversy terrifying and he believes most people in Hollywood do too.

“Read my e-mails, I say offensive things for a living,” he stated in an interview with New York Times columnist David Carr. “This whole thing is just scary. It’s e-mails, it’s your private stuff. And the whole town is scared… nobody knows what to do.”

Chris thinks the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects freedom of speech, is being compromised frequently in the digital world.

He brought up an interesting example to prove his point in, drawing on Donald Sterling’s recent scandal. The billionaire was forced to sell his professional basketball team The Clippers after recordings of him making racist remarks were released to the public.

“You say the wrong thing — you see what happened to [Sterling],” Chris noted. “I’m not defending what Sterling said at all, but if that’s not the First Amendment then what the [bleep] is? And what did he say, ‘I don’t want my girlfriend hanging out with black basketball players?’ Me neither!”