Glad the free speech folks are in charge

[jon-nyc]

Congressman threatens heads of social media companies if they don’t take down posts he doesn’t like.

[LuFins Dad]

I’m glad that people on the left are back to supporting freedom of speech. It’s a nice change after the last 16 years.

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

I’m glad that people on the left are back to supporting freedom of speech. It’s a nice change after the last 16 years.

It's nice to see that a "journalist" can advocate the judicial murder of people suffering from mental illness, but the FFC is more concerned with silencing that monstrous threat to democracy Jimmy Kimmel for making jokes they don't like.

[Doctor Phibes]

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[Doctor Phibes]

God, I wish I could distinguish between 'edit' and 'reply' in my excitement

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

I’m glad that people on the left are back to supporting freedom of speech. It’s a nice change after the last 16 years.

It's nice to see that a "journalist" can advocate the judicial murder of people suffering from mental illness, but the FFC is more concerned with silencing that monstrous threat to democracy Jimmy Kimmel for making jokes they don't like.

I’m pretty sure that I was the one to point the asshat out and call for his firing. And many conservatives are very outspoken about the administration crossing freedom of speech lines…

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

I’m glad that people on the left are back to supporting freedom of speech. It’s a nice change after the last 16 years.

It's nice to see that a "journalist" can advocate the judicial murder of people suffering from mental illness, but the FFC is more concerned with silencing that monstrous threat to democracy Jimmy Kimmel for making jokes they don't like.

I’m pretty sure that I was the one to point the asshat out and call for his firing. And many conservatives are very outspoken about the administration crossing freedom of speech lines…

Right, and where have I, a self-proclaimed member of the rational left, called for censorship of anybody's freedom of speech in the last 16 years?

It's not you or me that's the problem here.

[jon-nyc]

Don’t tell the Trump Administration but today is actually Constitution Day.

[Horace]

Disney pulled Kimmel's show just now, over comments he made Monday about how "maga was desperate to avoid admitting the obvious, that the assassin was one of their own".

Yep pendulum is swinging too far. Pretty sure tribal idiocy is protected. Almost every leftist punditry show in the world has similar delusions about the shooter. That's protected. Though of course Disney is free to do whatever they want.

[jon-nyc]

It’s probably worth mentioning Disney pulled the show after the head of the FCC, who often wears a lapel pin of Donald Trump’s face, threatened their broadcast license.

[Horace]

It's shitty that the FCC guy made that threat. Of course any such threat, and to whatever extent it's credible, any such action, only strengthens the opposition.

[Horace]

As for Kimmel, the theory that the shooter is Maga, is crazy enough that a reasonable analogy would have been to blame the jews. It was crazy as of the Monday night taping in question.

[Renauda]

@Horace

As for Kimmel, the theory that the shooter is Maga, is crazy enough that a reasonable analogy would have been to blame the secular Jews [like George Soros].

FIFY

An often cited collective of imagined bogeymen in The Maga Gospel.

[LuFins Dad]

[jon-nyc]

She would have imagine because there’s no evidence that there was any.

I’m old enough to remember 2018 and it was definitely an environment where a major tv broadcaster would fire someone comparing a prominent black woman to an ape. Even without any government intervention.

Also, can anyone really imagine the Trump administration pressuring ABC to fire her? Over a tweet about Valerie Jarret?

ABC canceled her show the same day as her tweet. My guess is the only calls they received in the interim were from Proctor & Gamble and Anheiser Busch.

[jon-nyc]

It was ABC that ousted Howard Cosell not long after the ‘little monkey’ remark. I doubt the Reagan administration intervened there either.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

She would have imagine because there’s no evidence that there was any.

I’m old enough to remember 2018 and it was definitely an environment where a major tv broadcaster would fire someone comparing a prominent black woman to an ape. Even without any government intervention.

Hang on a minute, my Google seems to be acting up. Who exactly was President in 2018?

[jon-nyc]

I since edited the post. @Doctor-Phibes

[LuFins Dad]

What I find funny is the administration at the time would have been Trump…

But there has been plenty enough examples over the years from the left that I find the pearl clutching disingenuous and a little amusing.

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

What I find funny is the administration at the time would have been Trump…

But there has been plenty enough examples over the years from the left that I find the pearl clutching disingenuous and a little amusing.

It would be ruled unconstitutional after it got to SCOTUS anyway. Which I expect it would, in very short order.