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> 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
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    - 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

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
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  - 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