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

Post by qzjxk » Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 11:19 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #901

dogleash wrote: post #888

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Yo. Free speech absolutist checking in. Sick of people racing to chirp that we're nowhere to be found. I'm too detached to doomscroll. Just saw the news now. Honestly, I'm tired of all of the snide remarks from both teams acting like you’re not equally guilty of opportunistically showing up for free speech. And you have the balls to make comments like this as I'm already dealing with the fact Jimmy Kimmel should have…

>Honestly, I'm tired of all of the snide remarks from both teams acting like you’re not equally guilty of opportunistically showing up for free speech. Yeah, a trans person asking you use their desired pronouns presents the same threat to free speech as the FCC threatening people over jokes. The reason for the "snide remarks" is that people like you are still drawing false equivalencies between "both teams".

Post by slg » Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 11:32 PM UTC

hnuser123456 wrote: post #914

slg wrote: post #897

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>Now, why would someone take out a prominent spokesperson for their own party? They wouldn't, because that's not something that people do to other people they agree with. This is why I think the American government is doomed in its current construction. First past the post voting has conditioned people like you to believe that everything is binary. You describe a world with only two parties that can have no dissentio…

Oh trust me, I saw the CGPgrey video about the issues with first past the post pretty soon after it was uploaded 14 years ago, I know that it doesn't have to be two parties who have to convert all opinions into binary and pick a side. If there's ever an initiative to change that to ranked voting, I'll gladly vote for that proposal. People will have to do a lot more critical thinking if they can't just keep pointing t…

Post by insane_dreamer » Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 11:40 PM UTC

UmGuys wrote: post #646

alpha_squared wrote: post #48

I'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…

There's no comparison here. The left's "cancel culture" doesn't exist and is literally free speech in action. This is the destruction of free speech. I think you have to participate in social media to understand what the left's cancel culture is because it's just a bunch of individuals expressing their opinions. Hence many are out of the loop. I wouldn't refer to authoritarian regimes as "cancel culture".

Post by jrflowers » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

qzjxk wrote: post #921

slg wrote: post #901

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>Honestly, I'm tired of all of the snide remarks from both teams acting like you’re not equally guilty of opportunistically showing up for free speech. Yeah, a trans person asking you use their desired pronouns presents the same threat to free speech as the FCC threatening people over jokes. The reason for the "snide remarks" is that people like you are still drawing false equivalencies between "both teams".

People have been fired from their jobs for refusing to refer to trans-identifying males as if they are women. Some have even been taken to court over it. This is quite clearly a threat to free speech.

Post by mizzao » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 12:32 AM UTC

StumpChunkman wrote: post #240

What causes very active discussions like this to drop off the front page so quickly? I saw another newer post that was probably made because the poster didn't see this post, and a comment made in there linked to this discussion.