Obama criticises Sony for film move

Sony Pictures “made a mistake” in deciding to shelve a film about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the studio suffered significant damage in a hacking attack the FBI blames on the secretive Communist regime, US President Barack Obama has said.

“I wish they had spoken to me first,” he said of Sony executives at a year-end news conference in which he added: “We cannot have a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship...”