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How is Jimmy's speech immoral? A list of words you can't say is about morality; it's a drag but at least it's objective. You either said the word or you didn't
by lenerdenator 1y ago
How is Jimmy's speech immoral?
A list of words you can't say is about morality; it's a drag but at least it's objective. You either said the word or you didn't.
This is far more subjective.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago[flagged]
- pupppet 1y agoLook at you straight-up parroting Trump's comments.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoI assure you Trump did not invent "jimmy Kimmel isn't funny"
- hamdingers 1y agoBeautiful motte you've got there.
- lenerdenator 1y agoOkay, then the person he lied about can file a defamation suit. That still doesn't fall within the FCC's regulatory authority, so far as I can tell. They're not the arbiters of what is and isn't a lie; a judge or jury during the defamation trial is.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoThe FCC is well enabled to make judgment calls. Yes a network can bring that judgement call in front of an actual judge in a court of law. That doesn't mean the FCC lacks the authority for such calls, only that the judge likely has higher authority.
- lenerdenator 1y agoDo you have an example of the FCC enforcing action against a television broadcaster or personality for saying something materially similar to what Kimmel said, at the same time slot and same genre of programming, on the basis that it was false and/or defamatory, without any sort of pre-existing court case related to the same?
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoinsane standard. how would you ever govern with that as your standard?
- lenerdenator 1y agoIt's just looking for precedent for what you're saying.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- craftkiller 1y ago> having terrible ratings. Not true. His ratings have him right in the middle of the pack: https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/ https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q...
- beej71 1y agoEven if he did lie, that's absolutely protected speech and the FCC is out of line. Every Constitution-respecting American knows this and would be against the FCC saying anything no matter what party was in charge.
- bmelton 1y agoThe speech itself may be protected, but it endangers ABC's broadcast license. If ABC knowingly broadcasts a lie the broadcast of that lie causes harms, then it is in violation of FCC's section 73.1217, which specifically exists to thwart against "Broadcast Hoaxes" In fairness to the provision, I think it's outdated, and I've argued against its relevance and that it seems unlikely to me to stand up in any court that interprets 1A jurisprudence to a modern standard, but the law exists and exists specifically to prevent against broadcast lies. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1217 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1217
- beej71 1y agoIf that's the case, then Fox News would be in a heap of trouble.