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Turns out they're not all that big on "free speech" in general! Who knew.
by wrs 1y ago
Turns out they're not all that big on "free speech" in general! Who knew.
- armenarmen 1y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 1y agoThat remains true! But the First Amendment very clearly says it can’t be the government doing the consequencing.
- rat87 1y agoThe right was also calling to cancel people back then. They've just gotten more flagrant now. I'm not sure you can even call it hypocrisy since they don't even pretend to have principles besides whatever Trump wants. The government is blackmailing private companies now. I don't watch Kimmel but looking up stories his comments didn't seem at all offensive, please tell me what I missed.
- bigyabai 1y agoWhich is why we're all shocked that the order came from the FCC chair and not the business owner.
- thatswrong0 1y agoThe FCC chairman threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Kimmel's comments. That's pretty much a direct 1st amendment violation.
- good8675309 1y agoAnd they also shared this: https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/
- thatswrong0 1y agoThe FCC Chairman threatened ABC over Kimmel's comments. This is not applicable.
- acdha 1y agoWhich is describing a very different situation: if ABC decided not to renew Kimmel’s contract, that’s their right as a business. Their listeners didn’t ask for this, the government made an illegal threat to force their business to stop allowing their listeners to have a choice.
- keernan 1y agoThat saying is absolutely true so long as the consequence isn't imposed by the government which has zero right to become involved in what Americans think, like, or say. And there is something seriously wrong when large corporations have to worry about kissing the government's ass because they are awaiting government approval for a business venture. Obviously that's always been a worry, but Trump has taken that to a sickening new level.
- billy99k 1y ago[flagged]