Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship

Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live "indefinitely" for a remark Kimmel made astir the effect to Charlie Kirk's death. The effect from Republican commentators has been predictably gleeful. They've positioned the suspension arsenic a reversal of "cancel culture," a "deplatforming" that's simply just retaliation for antagonizing them. "Jimmy Kimmel does person Free Speech, helium is escaped to talk conscionable not connected ABC," posted comedian Terrence Kentrell Williams connected X.

This framing is transparently false. ABC's suspension of Kimmel was the effect of an explicit menace from President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission Chair …

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