BartenderElite
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And right after the FCC chair said what he said.
The right cancels Kimmel
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And right after the FCC chair said what he said.
He was right.
BartenderElite
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Should this be the FCC's role in a free market?
Dutch Uncle
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The dictatorship of the Orange Messiah and his passel of traitors is asserting itself. Patriotic Americans should be ready for what comes next.
Trump claims he “brought free speech back to America.” Another Trump lie. Sad.
Mar 12, 2025
Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech but critics say his actions threaten it
President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.
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But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in Trump’s second term.
Trump’s Republican administration has threatened Democratic members of Congress with investigation for criticizing conservatives, pulled federal grants that include language it opposes, sanctioned law firms that represent Trump’s political opponents and arrested the organizer of student protests that Trump criticized as “anti-Semitic, anti-American.”
“Your right to say something depends on what the administration thinks of it, which is no free speech at all,” said Will Creeley, legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonpartisan First Amendment group...
...Republicans for several years have been the party complaining about infringements on the First Amendment, from complaints about “woke” colleges canceling conservative speakers to bashing social media companies they accuse of censoring conservative viewpoints, including cutting Trump off after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. GOP-controlled Florida and Texas even drew up laws to limit how social media firms regulate content, though the U.S. Supreme Court kept them on hold last year because of possible First Amendment violations.
Last year, Trump positioned himself as a champion of the First Amendment during his campaign, and he signed an executive order just hours after being sworn into office prohibiting anyone in the federal government from interfering with Americans’ free speech rights. But he also made pledges that signaled he might oppose some of the First Amendment’s fundamental protections, such as deporting foreign students who protested Israel or outlawing flag-burning, which the Supreme Court has ruled is protected free speech.
Into the Night
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They should've. ABC canceled Kimmel. ABC is not the right, Pretender.
Into the Night
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Don't like shooters assassinating political opponents or Democrats causing it? Shoot back.
Into the Night
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Trump does not own ABC.
Into the Night
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Do you have ANY IDEA what is happening with Turning Point USA? You Democrat fucks didn't kill it. It's GROWING, and FAST. You have poked the bear, and started the war. You will LOSE.
Into the Night
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MAGA isn't a person, Normy. You should read the mission of the FCC sometime. It really hasn't changed.
BTW, Stalin is dead. I guess you never got the memo?
Into the Night
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People can print what they want. They can't use the airwaves to commit slander. The FCC regulates the airwaves.No, but they are a large corporation that apparently got the drift of how things were going and decided to go with the flow. An article from Matt Taibbi I just took a look at gets into things. I only see the non paid walled part, but it's still quite good. Here it is:
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From Variety:
Well, shit. This could get ugly. Just before Disney’s decision, FCC chair Brendan Carr said Kimmel’s statements were “some of the sickest conduct possible” and his agency had a “strong case” for holding the company accountable for trying to “lie to the American people” about a major news story. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” he continued. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Carr added that he wanted to “reinvigorate” the FCC’s “public interest standard.” He listed people like Joy Ann Reid, Stephen Colbert, and Terry Moran, noted that Donald Trump successfully ran against such legacy media figures, and that “their grip on the narrative is slipping.” Still, he said, the FCC still needs to make sure firms leasing public airwaves uphold their public interest obligation.
Of all the network late night acts, Kimmel’s was the most vicious and unredeeming, continually hitting new lows during the pandemic in particular, with the aforementioned AntiVax Barbie and his “Rest in Peace, Wheezy” monologue sure to go down as cultural anti-landmarks. Virtually everything he said in the Trump era was DNC messaging with a punchline, putting him on course to spend the afterlife doing laps in media hell with Keith Olbermann. With his ratings in freefall, Disney was going to drop the axe sooner or later.
But acting so quickly after Carr’s “easy way or the hard way” line opens a can of worms. Now the organic demise of legacy media (definitely happening, and at lightning speed too) can’t be an unmuddied story. What Carr described would reimagine the FCC as a press regulator in a full-on truth-arbiter role, in the spirit of Britain’s hated OfCom. That feels like a big jump from where the Administration was in February, when J.D. Vance lambasted Europeans in Munich for losing sight of basic tenets of democracy, including the “freedom… to make mistakes.” Either way, wild news; Walter and I will talk it through on the next America This Week.
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Into the Night
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The airwaves are a limited resource. It is not a free market. The FCC and the federal government has signed international treaties to regulate those airwaves.
Using the airwaves to commit slander is not cool. The FCC will and should take action against it.
The Democrats lost most of the American people when they embraced criminality…the violent illegals, Luigi, and the animal who shot Charlie Kirk.
Defund the police, no cash bail, a Communist for mayor of NYC.
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We now know that Trump’s boy at the FCC strongarmed them.
Since you are dumb, I will explain.
The FCC is mandated by Congress, since 1934, to regulate the airwaves.
Commissioner Carr informed Kimmel that “in the public interest” did not include lying about the political preferences of the animal who killed Charlie Kirk.
See how easy that was.
If you are still having problems understanding this, read Damo’s posts. He has explained NBC’s numerous options at least half a dozen times,
Carr is Trump’s boy. He strong armed ABC and their affiliates. Kimmel was telling the truth.
But, guess what, stupid fuck? Lying is still protected speech. You don’t see FOX getting pressured, do you? Even that fuck that suggested lethally injecting homeless people is still on the air.
Since you are dumb, I will explain.
The FCC is mandated by Congress, since 1934, to regulate the airwaves.
Commissioner Carr informed Kimmel that “in the public interest” did not include lying about the political preferences of the animal who killed Charlie Kirk.
See how easy that was.
Now, take a hike, pendejo/a.
Matt Dillon
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It should be in the truth market, but I'm sure that's not something you know about.
Not lying is a good start, just sayin'.
One more time idiot. Even if Kimmel lied, which he didn’t, lying is protected speech. Otherwise, Trump and his followers would be shitcanned long ago.
Is suggesting killing homeless people in the public interest?
Carr is simply a Trump toady and used his government position to suppress free speech. Unconstitutional. But, no surprise coming from Trump and his cultists.
Matt Dillon
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Gomer, do you want to keep on losing? Because you are definitely on a losing path. Only you can fix that.
What was the amount FOX paid for lying about the 2020 election? Did all those liars lose their jobs?It should be in the truth market, but I'm sure that's not something you know about.
Not lying is a good start, just sayin'.