quote:

Kimmel made some comments that were untrue (the shooter was MAGA/Trump supporter) and the parent company fired or suspended (not really sure which as I’ve heard both) him, probably to protect themselves in case of a lawsuit.

I've been thinking about that remark and have a problem with it. Who has standing to sue over Kimmel's apparently false comments about the shooter's politics?

The shooter? Good luck on that one.

I can't think of anyone else who has standing to sue.

Of course, lack of standing hasn't stopped Trump from suing before. But his suits got tossed in early stages of the litigation.

https://youtu.be/WrZ4tY0Q6b0?si=_-a2dSneO-m2o4Vj

What the move to pull Kimmel off the air says about free speech under Trump

So the FCC is being used to silence any criticism??

Yeah, that's what seems to be happening, Saeed.

If the big media are censored and too cowardly to fight it, small forums like this one, where free speech is encouraged, will become more important.

If ABC wants to fire Kimmel as a private employer for his speech, some contractual creative control on Kimmel’s part notwithstanding, that is ABC’s right.

No one should be celebrating this Regime’s use of regulatory threat to force private employers’ hand over employee speech. That is what happened w Kimmel. Regulations before this Tyrant and this S. Ct., did not work that way. They existed in a larger, legal, non-capricious framework. They were not made up nor threatened based on the whim of the Executive (despite the lies the fake conservatives here will say).

Notice the Texas Contingent m/MAGA w who are so happy that Kimmel, South Park, Colbert getting pulled are the ones who are lionizing Kirk as a Martyr to Speech, Open Debate.

Go read the killer’s justification to his parents for killing Kirk. He cities more scripture than a Christmas Mass. Hence, why De. Easter’s view of religion and the state has to be designed in debate, the ballot box, and law.

I am hearing Trump is going to sign an Executive Order against Trans people.

NY Times is reporting the FCC Chief threatened Disney. Disney is ABC’s parent company.

That is a red flag.

To Kirk’s credit as a free speech absolutist when South Park made him a topic. He called it funny, he laughed, and sued conservatives have thick skin.