The 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.
Why would we defend the rights of someone that refuses to defend ours?
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
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#182Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.
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#183This is not cancel culture. What Jimmy Kimmel did was always out of bounds.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turns out they're not all that big on "free speech" in general! Who knew.
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#185Reminds me of the Bill Maher cancellation after he made a 9/11 remark
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#186I'm unsure where we as a society go from here. The left's cancel culture resulted in the firing of private citizens from their jobs, or at least some reprimand. The right's cancel culture is the full weight of the federal government brought down against opposition, in stark violation of the First Amendment; that is, until the Supreme Court can find some new carve-out for why this isn't protected speech. Realistically…
Probably true, which means you're in for a full-blown dictatorship for, oh, 30 years or so before (perhaps) some violent revolution.
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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/politics/trump-sues-de...
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#188> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel. Regardless of what Kimmel said and if you think it was appropriate or not, we are seeing this administration use this as an opportunity to trample on the…
You don't have to disregard what Kimmel said, because he hardly even said anything. Relevant portion is the first 8 mins of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk What, in the clip, could reasonably be referred to as "the sickest conduct possible?" No one with a healthy, functioning mind could possibly use that language to talk about Kimmel's comments in that clip.