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He has a right to say whatever he says, but surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it? He has a right to speak his mind, not to have a show.
by FredPret 1y ago
He has a right to say whatever he says, but surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it?
He has a right to speak his mind, not to have a show.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it? Short answer: depends on his contract. Longer answer: if ABC fired him because of illegal threats from Carr, one could construct the argument that ABC and Carr conspired illegally to subvert Kimmel’s First Amendment rights. (Whether this is legal nonsense is beyond me.)
- FredPret 1y agoThat would be wrong, but I think the conservative backlash was such that he'd have been very much fired anyway, FCC or no. People were publishing lists of his advertisers on X to organize a boycott.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoMurder of someone with late stage cancer is still murder.
- FredPret 1y agoGood point
- bandyaboot 1y agoDid you even read the piece?
- queenkjuul 1y agoThe FCC does not have the legal right to threaten him for what he said
- FredPret 1y agoThat seems correct to me as well, but is it really? I think they're making an argument related to misinformation / lying about a crime, which apparently is against the terms of ABC's broadcast license. I'm evidently not a lawyer.
- queenkjuul 1y agoThey threatened local affiliates' licenses if they didn't pull the show, which isn't making a formal complaint against ABC for misinformation. I'm obviously not a lawyer but nothing about the FCC making informal threats to coerce self censorship seems remotely legal, beyond the fact Kimmel obviously didn't lie about anything