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StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org to World News@quokk.au · 3 months ago

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

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ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

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StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org to World News@quokk.au · 3 months ago
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ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death
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ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    The US is a Nazi country. He said, "many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.” That’s it. The fragility of Nazis is overwhelming.

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    I just watched the monologue in question. It was probably the tamest critique of the lot. This is stupid. And illegal, but definitely stupid. Like, at least go after a harsher critic?

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      What makes it illegal?

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        Government suppression of free speech violates the 1st amendment. So being against the constitution makes it illegal.

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          I wasn’t aware that ABC was the government. They may be acting like Trump’s personal toadies, but I am pretty sure they are a private organization.

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            ABC acted after the chair of the FCC threatened ABC. The unconstitutional act was the FCC threat as a reaction to protected speech.

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              Hell, the President himself threatened ABC: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/politics/video/trump-threatens-to-go-after-abc-news-reporter-digvid-vrtc

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                • frongt@lemmy.zip
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                  No, that was Jonathan Karl of the American Broadcasting Company.

                  But you’re right in that he also threatened John Lyons of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at the same event: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/donald-trump-clashes-with-australian-abc-journalist-and-hints-at-albanese-meeting

                  And Trump did distinguish between the two ABCs, mentioning the leader of Australia to the Australian, and the lawsuit against ABC to the American.

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            Trump is literally using the government agencies to threaten “free speech “ that is blatantly unconstitutional

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            Private organizations that need gouvernement approval for their juicy merger. So its money + coercion organized at the highest level of your country.

            Welcome to USA, the land of the nazis 2nd edition

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          The article says ABC suspended the show voluntarily applauded by government. Shitty? Sure. Illegal? Not clearly.

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            “Voluntarily“ after the FCC threatened them. You know the FCC is part of the government, don’t you?

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              And where in that article is that information?

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                Earlier in the day, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel’s comments “truly sick” and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.

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                  Is every censorship action that the FCC takes illegal under the first amendment? If not, how is this one clearly a deviation from their normal censorship?

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    Title should call out “Disney-ABC”, not just ABC. It’s important to connect the dots how few outlets there are and how they are aligned. Christofacist will not be any stretch for Disney, and they have a king background in war propaganda films.

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    Land of the free.

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    Violation of the 1st amendment by the government (trump, via fcc chair). Nothing to do with Kirk

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    Boycott, boycott, then boycott.

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    USA is doing worse shit than their propaganda says about China

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