There are times when Americans must unify, stand strong and make sacrifices. One of those moments arrived as President Obama called on us to “go to the movies.” As Sony pulled The Interview from its lineup, its storyline has gone from comedy, to drama, to an outright horror show. Slate’s David Auerbach: “For perhaps the first time, a major American company really did suffer a worst-case cyberassault scenario.” And like with many bad movies, there will be sequels.

+ Hollywood celebrities were outraged by Sony’s decision. And Steve Carrell definitely picked the wrong time to be preparing to shoot a movie called Pyongyang (that project has already been preemptively surrendered). And remember a few sentences ago when I predicted this story would have sequels? Paramount just banned theaters from showing Team America.

+ Sony’s data was stolen. Much personal information is just given away. “We have never had ubiquitous surveillance before, much less a form of ubiquitous surveillance that emerges primarily from voluntary (if market-obscured) choices. Predicting how it shakes out is just fantasy.” Is the title of Pew’s latest report the ultimate oxymoron? The Future of Privacy.