This is not cancel culture. What Jimmy Kimmel did was always out of bounds.
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#92Sorry but the fact is a government agency (the FCC) pushed for this. This is a completely different thing than Disney deciding to do it on its own. This is a 1st amendment issue.
Where did you learn this?
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FCC threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license. That is government censorship, a direct attack on free speech.
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It's fairly absolute. There are exceptions but they are usually narrower then most people think. Proving defamation especially against a public figure is difficult on purpose.
As for spreading misinformation if that was illegal the whole Trump administration and fox would be in deep trouble
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#95Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#96The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.
> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation.
If you are going to morally judge the actions behind cancellation attempts, "I don't find Dave Chappelle's jokes funny" is not morally equivalent to "I don't think people should celebrate the murder of those they disagree with."
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#97We are in so much trouble as a society. The real danger here is that ABC did it before the White House ordered or told them too. Fascists rise in power the more scared we are to speak.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
The right is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?
> The right is simply good at PR One of the defining characteristics of the right is not placing any value on logical consistency. Being a hypocrite will not lose you any support with them.
Hypocrisy is a show of power.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
As much as I'd also appreciate a discussion on something like this, it's heavily political and HN isn't really the place for that unless it's directly related to tech.
Censorship affects everyone. Like, literally, your ability to understand the world around you. If that's not "tech," then I think folks need to broaden their perspective.
I agree, but I'm basing this on HackerNews' own guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My explanation was a little bit narrow by mentioning tech though, that just happens to be the general thing shared most of the time.
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#100https://xkcd.com/1357/
Except the FCC literally threatened ABC over this