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[–] 492 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (48 children)

Just to be clear: they suspended him for criticizing MAGA for trying to claim that the killer wasn't one of them. He didn't say anything about Charlie Kirk. He was censored for speaking truth by his own network. Not only censored, censured and suspended indefinitely.

We're 100% there kids. The founding fathers made a point to put something right after freedom of speech, from religion, and of assembly. Right there 2nd in order. Unabridged. Welp the 1st amendment is being abridged as we speak. And I hear that second thing was put in place to protect that first thing. I've been hearing it for over 50 years.

*quick edit in case anyone else wants to try to educate me about the constitution: no, he isn't protected by the 1st amendment from getting suspended. ABC should be protected but seeing as they've already settled for $16 million over threats on their FCC license and brought in new trump-friendly leadership, we can all agree he wasn't suspended due to ratings drops. Stop pretending things are normal. This is an obvious 1st amendment issue.

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  • [–] 165 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Yep.

    It's not just "ABC" either, it's Disney/Hulu.

    I just canceled both services and everyone else should too.

    Fuck em. All they care about is money, so let's show them that siding with fascism costs a shit ton of money

    If nothing else it will get the CEO who did this fired.

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  • [–] 75 points 11 months ago (20 children)

    Anyone who reads this... Cancel them all and spend a few 100 bucks setting up a Jellyfin server.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm an old head, everything I watch on Hulu/Disney I have on Plex.

    I was just subscribing because I have disposable income and wanted my dollars to count as eyeballs on media I enjoy.

    But fuck that.

    A significant amount drop in subscribers not only has a real chance to change their mind, it makes every other corp reevaluate whether to fight trump or not.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    When you cancel it asks for a reason, and “Other” gives freeform text - I let them know that bending the knee on fascism was my line.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago*

    Hold up - it goes a layer deeper and is actually fairly similar to what happened to Colbert.

    ABC had their hand forced because of a pending merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tenga, which once the FCC approves it, would place Nexstar in ownership of 80% of local TV channels in the US. Nexstar is based in Texas, so it's not exactly ABC-Disney friendly.

    So they threatened to censor Kimmel themselves on local TV stations unless ABC did it for them. They had on the ground infrastructure power to do this.

    And yes, we're 100% there. The key point is to understand that while everyone sees ABC as the Big Bad here, it's the infrastructure companies that have leverage and no one knows their names or how much they actually own.

    Edit: Just saw this - Sinclair's local ABC affiliates are replacing Kimmel reruns will air their own CK tribute show, just on their own whatever, fuck ABC's programming.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    He'll get to youtube and find success there, hopefully.

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