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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by ajr0 »

bix6 wrote: post #460
troad wrote: post #379

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So, hear me out, books are pretty great! Lots of people say things like "I know I should read, but it's this whole thing ..." and then you find out they've been stuck on page 3 of Wuthering Heights for forty years, because someone convinced them they ought to be reading that, and it's haunted them from their night-stand ever since. Don't let anyone tell you what to read, pick up something that sounds fun to you, and…

Caves of steel by Asimov my favorite recently. Super easy and enjoyable read.

Do not stop here! Keep going the trilogy there is great and all of it within the foundation universe, incredible stuff. I wish I had more people to discuss it with

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Post by ars »

DangitBobby wrote: post #295
throwmeaway222 wrote: post #249

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I'm not seeing much evidence of his political leaning (other than his choice of target, of course). Can you share some of this evidence?

Only thing I've seen is that he was dating a trans M-T-F person, and that person was very cooperative with police. Although it makes you wonder about his gay comment engraved on the bullet.

It's certainly not conclusive.

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Post by tomhow »

da_chicken wrote: post #398
mrandish wrote: post #233

We really need to stop the cancelling of people for saying controversial, disagreeable and even deeply offensive things. I don't agree with what Kimmel said and I wouldn't have said it myself but it also wasn't outside the bounds of opinions which should be able to be expressed. If you're nodding along in agreement, then you should also know my long-term commitment to consistency in tolerating factually wrong, distas…

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

theossuary wrote: post #305
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #173

I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations). But I do think, after decades of reflection, that comedians are correct when they point out that stereotypical humor shouldn't be off limits to any performer (of any background/color), but is... e.g. Owen Benjamin, Chappelle, Seinfeld .

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The state doesn't have to censor anything when most people are too afraid to comment publicly (retaliation).

My original argument, above, is that comedians ought to be allowed to "joke" about anything, as long as it generates community discussion. Any discussion will generate better outcomes than 2-party's design of PureHate™.

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Post by ars »

suzdude wrote: post #368
barney54 wrote: post #351

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The reasoning for the shooting is pretty clear. He told his transgender lover that “I had enough of his [Kirk’s] hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26098852-tyler-robin...

No, that's the reason to hate Kirk, not a reason to shoot him. What in his upbringing led him to believe the way to handle the situation was with violence is unclear.

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Post by kelnos »

_9za9 wrote: post #180
afavour wrote: post #161

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Not quite as simple as that. The FCC chief threatened ABC just today: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-... If Nexstar was acting in reaction to what Carr said there’s a First Amendment argument to be made. They also require FCC approval for a merger right now, it’s not difficult to see the quid pro quo potential. The argument would at least be heard by a judge.

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It is incredible the mental gymnastics you are going through to try to paint this as something other than government censorship.

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Post by nebula8804 »

thehappypm wrote: post #467
Gigachad wrote: post #146

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It’s not the company behind this. The federal government forced them to do this. All media is being taken over by the state.

“All media” is a huge stretch.. legacy hyper regulated media maybe

YouTube recently introduced an AI-driven policy that automatically places suspected under-18 accounts into Restricted Mode, which blocks access to political and news content. This happens because lots of people are sharing accounts with their kids and despite Youtubers attempts to change this there are large amount of viewers who actually dont subscribe to channels. This change has already caused independent creators to lose 25–33% of their views, since many users get flagged and no longer see political videos recommended. This has happened once before during the 2017–2018 "Adpocalypse": when all political channels lost ad revenue after advertisers pulled out due to seeing their content on a few extremist channels. The motivation now seems to be brand safety and political sensitivity, but the effect is the same: fewer viewers, less revenue, and potential long-term harm to independent media. Its the first step towards pushing out independent creators. Yeah there is substack and patreon but many avenues of independent media are in danger and this is a step in the wrong direction.

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Post by kelnos »

HK-NC wrote: post #196
xnx wrote: post #27

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> 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.

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No it doesn't, and I'm so tired of these garbage false equivalencies.

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Post by lojban »

d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #427
AfterHIA wrote: post #307

This is the reaction from the part of the political consciousness that just realized it/its children are not safe anywhere. They're going to continue to use this as a justification for retaliation. You have to realize that the correct answer to this is, "conversions not killings" but the uppity software developer, "middle class" either needs to mobilize itself or the next wave is you getting fired from your dev job b…

But it's already like this. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have survived in tech if people knew I was a conservative. I've always felt like I would be punished if people knew.

There's a huge difference between top down cancellation and bottom up cancellation.

Do you think the CEO would have fired you for being conservative? Or do you think your career wouldn't have advanced because people wouldn't want to associate with someone who's always saying things they find abhorrent?

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

Comedian makes joke on television.

Sensitive much? Not really the emotional intelligence and maturity one wants from an establishment running a country of 300 million people and all the problems that encapsulates.

The US is in all kinds of trouble and, unfortunately, the rest of the world is going to get some of it on them.

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