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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by sylens on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:40PM (#45305608)
You're conflating cancel culture, done voluntarily by private companies, with censorship, with the federal government through the FCC is dictating the outcomes of mergers and acquisitions based on compliance with speech restrictions.
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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by danielvaughn on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:48PM (#45305710)
This isn't entirely true, as cancel culture was also prominent at public universities.
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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by christophilus on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:49PM (#45305719)
The Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter. This cancel culture— both from the right and left— sucks and should be fought.
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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by oenton on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:19PM (#45306755)
> The Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter.

This is categorically false. Are you referring to this story, where the Biden administration asked Facebook to take down Covid misinformation and "expressed a lot of frustration" when Zuckerberg told them no?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh...

If not, then where did you learn that the Biden administration "had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter"?

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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by reop2whiskey on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:32PM (#45306908)
plenty of evidence if you look

http://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponizatio...

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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by mensetmanusman on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:25PM (#45306827)
Private companies were being pressured by government officials. That was already proven a few years ago.

Also, Kimmel is a case of a private company canceling him the FCC didn’t force anything.

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Re:After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens... by Gud on Saturday September 20, 2025 @05:52AM (#45311898)
They don’t need to force anything, just make vague threats.
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