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Re:Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:50PM (#45296417)
> surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it?

Short answer: depends on his contract.

Longer answer: if ABC fired him because of illegal threats from Carr, one could construct the argument that ABC and Carr conspired illegally to subvert Kimmel’s First Amendment rights. (Whether this is legal nonsense is beyond me.)

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Re:Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court by FredPret on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:15PM (#45296562)
That would be wrong, but I think the conservative backlash was such that he'd have been very much fired anyway, FCC or no. People were publishing lists of his advertisers on X to organize a boycott.
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Re:Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court by cosmicgadget on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:28PM (#45296632)
Murder of someone with late stage cancer is still murder.
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Re:Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court by FredPret on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:43PM (#45296723)
Good point
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