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While I don't much care for either Kimmel nor The View - this is ridiculously corrupt, authoritarian, thuggish, illegal and arrogant behavior and cannot be allo
by dralley 1y ago
While I don't much care for either Kimmel nor The View - this is ridiculously corrupt, authoritarian, thuggish, illegal and arrogant behavior and cannot be allowed to stand.
And shame on Disney for caving. Cowards who kneel down to kiss the ring in the face of blatantly illegal threats are not worthy of a position of public trust. And over a merger no less.
I can't think of a better moral justification to prevent a corporation from owning a bigger slice of the ecosystem than to know that said corporation will dispense of any and all integrity they may yet possess to do it.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoAn issue was that the right was being canceled for views not even 5 years ago and the same people complaining about Kimmel are having their exact quotes replayed justifying those types of cancellations. From a game theoretic standpoint, tit for tat is exactly what’s supposed to happen to stabilize the situation. This has actually been proven by mathematicians that apply decision making theories to social structures.
- sylens 1y agoYou're conflating cancel culture, done voluntarily by private companies, with censorship, with the federal government through the FCC is dictating the outcomes of mergers and acquisitions based on compliance with speech restrictions.
- danielvaughn 1y agoThis isn't entirely true, as cancel culture was also prominent at public universities.
- christophilus 1y agoThe Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter. This cancel culture— both from the right and left— sucks and should be fought.
- oenton 1y ago> The Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter. This is categorically false. Are you referring to this story, where the Biden administration asked Facebook to take down Covid misinformation and "expressed a lot of frustration" when Zuckerberg told them no? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... If not, then where did you learn that the Biden administration "had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter"?
- reop2whiskey 1y agoplenty of evidence if you look http://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponization-committee-exposes-biden-white-house-censorship-regime-new-report http://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponizatio...
- mensetmanusman 1y agoPrivate companies were being pressured by government officials. That was already proven a few years ago. Also, Kimmel is a case of a private company canceling him the FCC didn’t force anything.
- Gud 1y agoThey don’t need to force anything, just make vague threats.
- kg 1y agoThe right was cancelled by the US government?
- mrbombastic 1y agoSee if you can spot the difference. And i am not defending past cancellations, but there is a not so subtle difference in kind here that makes these kind of both sides arguments fall flat.
- HankStallone 1y agoYes, much of the anger is coming from the petard-hoisting nature of this, and people who spent 2017-2024 trying to silence (or worse) everyone who disagreed with them and cheering on governments that tried to suppress "disinformation" and other speech they didn't like, having to come up with elaborate justifications why It's Different This Time.
- UmGuys 1y agoThis never occurred and you're completely full of it. No democratic government official ever pressured anyone to be cancelled.