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Nobody has any principles here my friend. There is a long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats, and now a few murders too.

Nobody has any principles here my friend. There is a long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats, and now a few murders too. But yes, apparently everyone hates Disney and wants them to go bankrupt. So finally the left and right agree on one thing. Unfortunately for Kimmel, late night TV is irrelevant dinosaur so he better extract as much money as he can before he inevitably ends up like Colbert.

hypeatei 1y ago
> long list of people canceled This FCC action was censorship, not cancel culture.
- nostromo 1y ago
  Reuter's reported that Disney did this to protect the company’s interest and was not due to the FCC. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-jimmy-kimmel-will-return-air-tuesday-2025-09-22/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-j...
  - shadowgovt 1y ago
    Protect the company from what? What is the quote you're referencing here?
    - nostromo 1y ago
      > The decision was guided by what was in the entertainment company's best interest, rather than external pressure from station owners or the FCC, the sources said.
      - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
        That's a word salad. From today's statement: "Last Wednesday, we [Disney] made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country" [1]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550330/jimmy-kimmel-back-suspended-disney-trump https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550330/jimmy-kimmel-ba...
        nostromo 1y ago
        It's not a word salad. It says this wasn't because of the FCC. Disney made the decision. And then they unmade it.
- strictnein 1y ago
  What, exactly, was the FCC action here? Not comments by people at the FCC, what specific actions did the FCC take?
  - hypeatei 1y ago
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimm... When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listening. On Wednesday afternoon, Carr tapped into preexisting MAGA media anger about a Monday night Kimmel monologue and used a right-wing podcaster’s platform to blast Kimmel and pressure ABC’s parent company Disney. Those are the actions he took as an official at the FCC.
    - strictnein 1y ago
      [flagged]
      - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
        > so no actions, just statements This is mind-numbing goal-post reconstruction. If they'd issued an order, it wouldn't be final until it reached SCOTUS! Most regulatory interaction happens informally. A regulator tells a regulated entity to do something, and they do it. Public statements by the FCC commissioner are significant enough to make it into court cases as evidence of the Commision's intent.
        strictnein 1y ago
        That's not "goal post reconstruction". Someone said the FCC took actions. I thought I might have missed them actually _doing_ something, so I was asking about it. The response was to highlight the statements they said.
        1y ago
SimianSci 1y ago
"long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats" If we exclude the people advocating violence and discrimination against others due to their immutable characteristics, we find that its not such a "long" list after all.
bayarearefugee 1y ago
> There is a long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats, and now a few murders too. The list I keep seeing from people on the right is Rosanne Barr and Tim Allen... who were "cancelled" in 2018 and 2017 respectively. My memory is bad, so.. who was the wokie leftist President in office in 2017 and 2018 again?
- jkubicek 1y ago
  We shouldn’t need to clarify this, but Tim Allen and Roseanne Bar were not threatened by high-ranking government officials, right? These are two completely different situations. If conservatives want to vote with their dollars and boycott Disney, that’s something I wholeheartedly support. If they want to use their power as federal officials to silence voices they disagree with, that’s unacceptable.

hypeatei 1y ago

> long list of people canceled This FCC action was censorship, not cancel culture.

nostromo 1y ago
Reuter's reported that Disney did this to protect the company’s interest and was not due to the FCC. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-jimmy-kimmel-will-return-air-tuesday-2025-09-22/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-j...
- shadowgovt 1y ago
  Protect the company from what? What is the quote you're referencing here?
  - nostromo 1y ago
    > The decision was guided by what was in the entertainment company's best interest, rather than external pressure from station owners or the FCC, the sources said.
    - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      That's a word salad. From today's statement: "Last Wednesday, we [Disney] made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country" [1]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550330/jimmy-kimmel-back-suspended-disney-trump https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550330/jimmy-kimmel-ba...
      - nostromo 1y ago
        It's not a word salad. It says this wasn't because of the FCC. Disney made the decision. And then they unmade it.
strictnein 1y ago
What, exactly, was the FCC action here? Not comments by people at the FCC, what specific actions did the FCC take?
- hypeatei 1y ago
  https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimm... When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listening. On Wednesday afternoon, Carr tapped into preexisting MAGA media anger about a Monday night Kimmel monologue and used a right-wing podcaster’s platform to blast Kimmel and pressure ABC’s parent company Disney. Those are the actions he took as an official at the FCC.
  - strictnein 1y ago
    [flagged]
    - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > so no actions, just statements This is mind-numbing goal-post reconstruction. If they'd issued an order, it wouldn't be final until it reached SCOTUS! Most regulatory interaction happens informally. A regulator tells a regulated entity to do something, and they do it. Public statements by the FCC commissioner are significant enough to make it into court cases as evidence of the Commision's intent.
      - strictnein 1y ago
        That's not "goal post reconstruction". Someone said the FCC took actions. I thought I might have missed them actually _doing_ something, so I was asking about it. The response was to highlight the statements they said.
        1y ago

SimianSci 1y ago

"long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats" If we exclude the people advocating violence and discrimination against others due to their immutable characteristics, we find that its not such a "long" list after all.

bayarearefugee 1y ago

> There is a long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats, and now a few murders too. The list I keep seeing from people on the right is Rosanne Barr and Tim Allen... who were "cancelled" in 2018 and 2017 respectively. My memory is bad, so.. who was the wokie leftist President in office in 2017 and 2018 again?

jkubicek 1y ago
We shouldn’t need to clarify this, but Tim Allen and Roseanne Bar were not threatened by high-ranking government officials, right? These are two completely different situations. If conservatives want to vote with their dollars and boycott Disney, that’s something I wholeheartedly support. If they want to use their power as federal officials to silence voices they disagree with, that’s unacceptable.