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After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by Jtsummers »

knicholes wrote: post #3

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It's tangential, as most people here aren't involved in traditional media, but this is a government that is interested in suppressing speech it dislikes [1]. Not actively harmful speech, threats and the like, just things they dislike. If this continues it could have significant impact for companies in the US, working with the US, and people working in the US but from other countries. This is the same administration that wants to go through social media posts and comments of people visiting the country to screen them for bad thoughts. Members of the administration are calling on people to rat each other out to their employers for this thoughtcrime.

[1] https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2025/09/15/higgins-calls-upon-... - a recent example, out of Congress. Calling on social media companies to ban users because they said something he dislikes.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by mlinhares »

ajross wrote: post #5

This is the way shakedowns work. Disney backed down on Kimmel because he's "just a comedian" or it's "just one show" or he was "failing anyway". So now they're marks. It's always easy to squeeze a mark for a second time than to shake down a fresh one. The View is "soft news", it's a "minor talk show", it's "daytime TV". It's not like they're coming after This Week or World News Tonight. Right?

Just shows that they want to cave, they’re not being forced, they can fight and win but they want to be threatened and cave. If we get out of this mess I hope these people are also made responsible for the outcomes as enablers.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by jjangkke »

Overton Window shift basically. One side used cancel culture relentlessly for even the smallest slights. Now the other side is using the very same tactic. Many people who have kept out of the extremes have now shifted towards the right and those who ignore the shift are finding out the hard way.

I advise HN users who aren't aware of what's happening, read up on what Overton Window is and why its dangerous to continue posting the way you have without infosec.

You think you are posting only on HN but your posts are actually being distributed on other platforms by people who are very angry.

Users on Bluesky thought they were posting on Bluesky but they only found out too late, after they got fired because their political posts were being shared elsewhere.

There have already been few HN users who have been targeted for their radical views and have paid the price.

For your sake, please don't ignore this message.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by labrador »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

Off to the USSR we go unless Congress gets brave. Sadly I told people who came here from the USSR where I use to work 40 years ago we were heading towards being the USSR, but a bit different. They said "no way", well here we are, well on our way. Just a different flavor of the same type of thing.

I served in the Navy 40 years ago on a nuclear submarine opposed to the Soviet Union so I had an interest in learning about our enemy. People like Stephen Kotkin have said Stalin and those around him were true believers in communism, while the situation in America feels like early Putinism, which was about money and power. But the suppression of those critical of the regime is the same.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by thefourthchime »

The actual quote from the FCC chair:

"When you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule called the Equal Opportunity Rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run-up to an election and you have one partisan elected official on, you have to give equal time, equal opportunity, to the opposing partisan politician,"

This is classic Trump era politics. Bully people with a tangential connection to a obscure law. That way it has an air of legality. Well it meanders through the courts. In the end it doesn't matter if it gets ruled down or not. This gives you time to be rule as a de facto authoritarian.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

jimbob45 wrote: post #10

Pure kayfabe. ABC needed any excuse to get rid of a show that no longer made sense in the modern era of streaming. NBC and CBS must be furious that they didn’t think of this first. Edit: Ha I forgot that CBS actually did think of it first with Colbert’s show getting axed too.

Stupid take. These shows are cheap to produce and still get good ratings. They're profitable. What are they being replaced with?

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by clipsy »

zzzeek wrote: post #4
jmclnx wrote: post #2

Off to the USSR we go unless Congress gets brave. Sadly I told people who came here from the USSR where I use to work 40 years ago we were heading towards being the USSR, but a bit different. They said "no way", well here we are, well on our way. Just a different flavor of the same type of thing.

it would help if the billionaire / centimillionaire classes decided they didn't like what was going on.

It’d be hectomillionaire, unless you’re referring to people with $10k.

Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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Post by zidad »

zzzeek wrote: post #4
jmclnx wrote: post #2

Off to the USSR we go unless Congress gets brave. Sadly I told people who came here from the USSR where I use to work 40 years ago we were heading towards being the USSR, but a bit different. They said "no way", well here we are, well on our way. Just a different flavor of the same type of thing.

it would help if the billionaire / centimillionaire classes decided they didn't like what was going on.

who do you think is orchestrating this?
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