Jimmy Kimmel didn't even come close to deserving censorship. Free speech wins

[Guno צְבִי]

After 22 years of late-night barbs and blasts at the political establishment, the censorship hand of the lord of Disney, fearing the almighty intervention of the Federal Communications Commission, bowed to the avowed purge of the orange king and his minions.

And like that, Jimmy Kimmel, one of the clearest voices of dissent and criticism of the Trump administration, was gone from his ABC late-night talk show, joining the award-winning Stephen Colbert in dissenter’s purgatory. Sadly, only Jimmy Fallon — the least political of the big three — remained to fight the culture war.

But surprise, surprise, Disney relented. Kimmel was back. Was it the fear of boycotts? The potential besmirching of the Mickey Mouse legend? Or did they just not want to be associated with a censorship purge that was being associated with an authoritarianism we thought we defeated in 1945?

What started as another American political assassination, albeit of a firebrand conservative, is turning into a full-blown witch hunt of not only anyone who does not worship the fallen Charlie Kirk but also as President Donald Trump brands them:

Jimmy Kimmel didn't even come close to deserving censorship. Free speech wins | Opinion

Jimmy Kimmel was censored — and he shouldn't have been. We cannot cancel speech we don't agree with.

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[Yakuda]

After 22 years of late-night barbs and blasts at the political establishment, the censorship hand of the lord of Disney, fearing the almighty intervention of the Federal Communications Commission, bowed to the avowed purge of the orange king and his minions.

And like that, Jimmy Kimmel, one of the clearest voices of dissent and criticism of the Trump administration, was gone from his ABC late-night talk show, joining the award-winning Stephen Colbert in dissenter’s purgatory. Sadly, only Jimmy Fallon — the least political of the big three — remained to fight the culture war.

But surprise, surprise, Disney relented. Kimmel was back. Was it the fear of boycotts? The potential besmirching of the Mickey Mouse legend? Or did they just not want to be associated with a censorship purge that was being associated with an authoritarianism we thought we defeated in 1945?

What started as another American political assassination, albeit of a firebrand conservative, is turning into a full-blown witch hunt of not only anyone who does not worship the fallen Charlie Kirk but also as President Donald Trump brands them:

Jimmy Kimmel didn't even come close to deserving censorship. Free speech wins | Opinion

Jimmy Kimmel was censored — and he shouldn't have been. We cannot cancel speech we don't agree with.

news.yahoo.com

nobody stopped kibble from saying he wanted to say and he has plenty of other place he can spread his stupidity. No one however is required to listen to him and ABC has every right to can his ass.

 

[cawacko]

"We cannot cancel speech we don't agree with".

If more partisans actually live by that when it comes to people on the other side, it would be a huge win for the country. Sadly that’s rarely the case, and the incentive to do so is pretty low.

 

[zymurgy]

he deserves to be ignored because he is a bore

3 years of all those bullshit shows losing money. losing market share. losing interest.

why have none been replaced? They all share the same lame formula of being hyper partisan propaganda for one political party.

He might get a slight bump by the idiot activists for a short time - but that will also come at a cost of the other idiots on the other channels.