President Obama: Sony Pictures 'made a mistake' in canceling 'The Interview'

President Barack Obama addressed Sony Picture's decision to halt the release of "The Interview," during a press conference, saying he believed the studio made "a mistake" by pulling the film.

"In this interconnected digital world, there are going to be opportunities for hackers to engage in cyberassaults both in the private sector and the public sector," the President said, urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow for greater information sharing about such threats. "We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States," President Obama said. "Because 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 -- or, even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don't want to offend the sensibilities of someone who sensibilities probably need to be offended."