Jimmy Kimmel

[AggiesAreWe]

18 minutes ago, Eagle11 said:

When folks get on here and post things that go against the rules they get banned..........no crying about free speech

Very true.

This is a single ownership website. No democracy here. His rules. Like it or leave it.

[thetragichippy]

1 hour ago, TxHoops said:

A government official using his position to exert pressure on the network to do so is a free speech violation.

I don't recall the left being free speech champions during the 2016 election when Trump lost his platform on Twitter during a Presidential election....OR, during covid with everyone. 

I posted receipts in this tread earlier of Kamala, Schumer and Jefferies of trying to persuade free speech. 

To me, banning a Presidential candidate from the largest social media platform was one of the worst "free speech" issues in my lifetime, yet the left seemed pretty happy about it....... 

[thetragichippy]

11 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Very true.

This is a single ownership website. No democracy here. His rules. Like it or leave it.

That would ring true on any website not owned by the Government. 

[baddog]

Jimmy Kimmel and his hate filled “free speech” is responsible for Charlie Kirk’s death. Freedom of speech is not a license to incite hate. Even Geraldo Rivera said that. Who is really going to miss Kimmel’s show? It wasn’t even a talk show. It was simply a mouthpiece for the left.

[OlDawg]

The truth of the matter is, most people only want free speech when it agrees with their own thoughts and ideas.

[baddog]

21 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

The truth of the matter is, most people only want free speech when it agrees with their own thoughts and ideas.

I’m certainly not most people and I agree with this search. Obscenity would shut a lot of mouths. I don’t believe anyone should say “F” you to police.

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[thetragichippy]

36 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

The truth of the matter is, most people only want free speech when it agrees with their own thoughts and ideas.

Yup - Republicans were up in arms when Trump was kicked off twitter during his campaign.  Democrats not so much.

This is just the opposite, although, Kimmel is not running for an elected office. 

[TxHoops]

2 hours ago, thetragichippy said:

I don't recall the left being free speech champions during the 2016 election when Trump lost his platform on Twitter during a Presidential election....OR, during covid with everyone. 

I posted receipts in this tread earlier of Kamala, Schumer and Jefferies of trying to persuade free speech. 

To me, banning a Presidential candidate from the largest social media platform was one of the worst "free speech" issues in my lifetime, yet the left seemed pretty happy about it....... 

Yep, just as bad.  Although you miss the distinction that Twitter isn’t government owned.  I just love being in the middle while the hypocritical idiots on the fringes of both sides continue to play whataboutism.  Super productive. 

[thetragichippy]

Just now, TxHoops said:

 Although you miss the distinction that Twitter isn’t government owned.

I did not miss it, ABC is not Government owned.

Whataboutism's is what folks use when they don't want to be called a hypocrite. You did say just as bad, so that was not aimed at you. I would disagree and say it is worse silencing someone running for President versus a talk show host trying to make people laugh or whatever it was he as trying to do.  Lastly, had he just apologized as his Boss asked him to do, he would be back on television. 

We can ignore the past or learn from it. 

[TxHoops]

10 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

I did not miss it, ABC is not Government owned.

Whataboutism's is what folks use when they don't want to be called a hypocrite. You did say just as bad, so that was not aimed at you. I would disagree and say it is worse silencing someone running for President versus a talk show host trying to make people laugh or whatever it was he as trying to do.  Lastly, had he just apologized as his Boss asked him to do, he would be back on television. 

We can ignore the past or learn from it. 

Correct as I originally stated in my first post ITT supporting ABC’s right to suspend, fire him, whatever.  The post you quoted, or the exact portion you quoted, however, was the line dealing with a governmental official; specifically the FCC chair using his position to suppress speech.  Which coincidentally was the whole point of the article that was linked where Ted Cruz was also criticizing him for the same reason I was. 
 

Every time I come to this board, usually takes about 24 hours for me to remember why it’s been weeks or sometimes months since my last visit 😂

[LumRaiderFan]

2 hours ago, TxHoops said:

Yep, just as bad.  Although you miss the distinction that Twitter isn’t government owned.  I just love being in the middle while the hypocritical idiots on the fringes of both sides continue to play whataboutism.  Super productive. 

You’re right, Twitter was not government owned, but when it came to Trump and Covid, they may as well been, taking marching orders directly from the biden administration.

That’s the sole reason they are under new management, thank goodness.

Hypocritical idiots, now that’s super productive.