• ultranaut@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Yes, they have. Being seen to capitulate on free speech has pissed a lot of people off. His ratings are irrelevant, people who hate Kimmel are pissed because it’s not about him specifically.

    Your image with the Kimmel quote is a different situation. Businesses are free to make business decisions, that is exactly the problem here. They were not free, and as Trump has reiterated, there’s now a new censorship regime enforced by the FCC which is going to continue interfering in these businesses to silence critics.

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      23 hours ago

      ABC chose to cancel his show. Trump didn’t.

      The FCC said they might investigate because there are laws around what can be shown/said on free to air broadcast television, and blatant lying and spreading misinformation for political reasons is, shockingly, not allowed.

      It’s funny that the left are now cranky at Disney and trying to “cancel” them, thinking it will piss off the right, while the right has been vocally anti-Disney for years lol.

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        22 hours ago

        You seem to either be uninformed or not commenting in good faith. The FCC explicitly coerced Disney, Trump in his own words says they are going after these companies for being critical of him. Using the power of the state in this way is categorically different than social movements trying to “cancel” people.

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          22 hours ago

          The FCC explicitly coerced Disney

          Got some evidence of that? Since you said “explicitly” I take it that the FCC publicly told them to fire him and cancel his show, right?

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            22 hours ago

            Yes, pay attention to what is happening? Go look at the words of Carr. Go look at what Trump has been saying. It is completely transparent that critics must be silenced or the power of the state will be used to interfere in your business.

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              22 hours ago

              You must have accidentally forgotten to provide the quotes and sources? Just put them in your next reply :)

              Only one side is silencing their critics - that’s what happened to cause all this, remember? Your side silenced the “let’s have a conversation” guy by murdering him.

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                22 hours ago

                Not interested in feeding sealions, you seem capable enough to use the internet on your own. It’s obvious now that you are a partisan who will defend Trumpism regardless of what is going on right in front of your face and I find that boring. I hope some day you do value freedom enough to advocate for it.

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                    15 hours ago

                    Do you think you are scoring points in a debate? We can all see what is happening in the news, we can read the threats from the President. Playing these games here isn’t going to work. You know what you are doing is wrong. If it were the party you oppose wielding the state against businesses in this manner, your tune would be completely different. It is obvious what you are and why you are here. I’m not interested.