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> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Car
by Sparkle-san 1y ago
> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.
Regardless of what Kimmel said and if you think it was appropriate or not, we are seeing this administration use this as an opportunity to trample on the free speech rights of everyone they disagree with. If everyone's rights are not protected, then nobody's are.
- _9za9 1y ago[flagged]
- afavour 1y agoNot quite as simple as that. The FCC chief threatened ABC just today: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236522406/ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-... If Nexstar was acting in reaction to what Carr said there’s a First Amendment argument to be made. They also require FCC approval for a merger right now, it’s not difficult to see the quid pro quo potential. The argument would at least be heard by a judge.
- _9za9 1y ago[flagged]
- afavour 1y ago> First Amendment ‘coercion’ requires a concrete threat backed by government power and a causal link to the station’s decision. Yeah. How about this direct quote from Carr? > I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.
- kelnos 1y agoIt is incredible the mental gymnastics you are going through to try to paint this as something other than government censorship.
- tzs 1y ago>>> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel Last I checked, the FCC is part of the government.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoCan you visualize a Venn diagram that has 'free speech' and 'the First Amendment'?
- rezonant 1y agoYour post deliberately leaves out the statements from the FCC threatening action, which spooked Nexstar who has business with the FCC. Maybe you weren't aware of this fact despite it being literally the headline shown on the very page you are commenting on: > ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
- _9za9 1y agoYour post deliberately leaves out statements from Sinclair and Nexstar themselves. "In a statement posted online, Sinclair praised the Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr and called the comic’s remarks “inappropriate and deeply insensitive”." "Inappropriate and deeply insensitive", but I suppose you, and the others here like you, believe it is appropriate and timely to spread misinformation as long as it fuels your narrative.
- ceejayoz 1y agoNo one can be this genuinely naïve. “Yes, the kidnapped torture victim in my basement dungeon is fine. Here, they wrote a note saying so.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton
- croon 1y agoWere those comments made before or after the direct and described causal threat made by Carr?
- rezonant 1y agoWhat's at issue is whether it's appropriate for officials in the US government to use their office to apply pressure against speech they don't like. Preventing this behavior is why the first amendment exists.
- davesque 1y agoYou don't have to disregard what Kimmel said, because he hardly even said anything. Relevant portion is the first 8 mins of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk What, in the clip, could reasonably be referred to as "the sickest conduct possible?" No one with a healthy, functioning mind could possibly use that language to talk about Kimmel's comments in that clip.
- _9za9 1y ago[flagged]
- davesque 1y agoMAGA did, in fact, do their best over the weekend to cast the shooter as anything other than one of them. Comments made in poor taste? Maybe? Not really? No poorer taste than the president saying on Fox & Friends that he "couldn't care less" about promoting unity after the Kirk shooting. Next point, from NYTimes article covering this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-... "The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel’s remarks and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of them." So yes, ABC/Nexstar are within their editorial rights to make this decision, but that decision came at an awfully conspicuous time. So what, nothing to see here?
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- Sparkle-san 1y agoPretty sure it's supposed to prevent the FCC commissioner from threatening to pull your license though unless you fire a particular individual though.
- otterley 1y agoThe First Amendment protects people against much more than criminal prosecution. Cases I recommend you read include: Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105 The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964) Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974)
- insane_dreamer 1y agoIt promises that the _government_ (aka FCC) won't suppress it (in this case by threatening to punish your employer if you are not suppressed)