FCC goes after license of eight ABC- owned stations...

[TIDE-HSV]

Well, here's the new reality boys. They said it couldn't happen here...

 

[81usaf92]

It’s probably no coincidence that Trump ordered the DOJ to issue a warrant for James Comey for a case that was thrown out a year ago on the same day that he orders the FCC to pressure Disney to dump Jimmy Kimmel over a prerecorded joke that he clearly wasn’t referring to the incident that happened.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Link:

ABCNews: FCC orders early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses​

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Trump's war on free speech continues. His supporters don’t care.

 

[92tide]

Trump's war on free speech continues. His supporters don’t care.

they think we are living in a golden age of free speech

 

[TIDE-HSV]

It shouldn't be missed that one of Hitler's first moves was throttling the free press...

 

[Tidewater]

It shouldn't be missed that one of Hitler's first moves was throttling the free press...

Putin's first moves as well, for what it's worth.

 

[arthurdawg]

Putin's first moves as well, for what it's worth.

I worry less about distinguishing fascism and communism and right and left than good old authoritarianism itself. Evil men gonna evil.

This move has been broadcast for some time now.

 

[92tide]

I worry less about distinguishing fascism and communism and right and left than good old authoritarianism itself. Evil men gonna evil.

This move has been broadcast for some time now.

but massive numbers of our fellow citizens think this is awesome

 

[arthurdawg]

FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady

Kimmel joke calling Melania an "expectant widow" followed quickly by FCC order.

arstechnica.com

 

[arthurdawg]

but massive numbers of our fellow citizens think this is awesome

Sadly... Yes... And they will be blaming all of the disasters to come on Biden, so they can maintain that fiction for a very long time indeed.

 

[92tide]

Sadly... Yes... And they will be blaming all of the disasters to come on Biden, so they can maintain that fiction for a very long time indeed.

"but the democrats" is a cool, soothing salve for a lot of folks

 

[Huckleberry]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/comey-kimmel-trump-free-speech

Comey and Kimmel cases drive home Trump’s dim view of foes’ free speech




These actions are blatant attempts to intimidate and silence critics of the Trump Administration. It’s despicable and blatantly unconstitutional. Trump knows it, MAGA knows it, non-Trump conservatives know it, moderates know it, Democrats know it, and certainly libertarians know it.

While the accusations might be so stupid as to be laughable, the intent is not. When the Biden Administration wrongly tried to silence free speech on social media, many liberals supported the actions while conservatives were rightly up in arms. These things should not be partisan. I hope everyone can find common ground in condemning the Trump Administration’s latest efforts to control media and the free speech of citizens.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

I still disagree that the social media crackdown on misinformation and lies about COVID was an attack on free speech. The First Amendment does not protect social media posts from moderation. Those lies were actively hurting people and needed to be stopped. The sites, including TF, have the right to moderate themselves. I just had a post deleted here yesterday, and you don't see me screaming "but free speech."

 

[Huckleberry]

I still disagree that the social media crackdown on misinformation and lies about COVID was an attack on free speech. The First Amendment does not protect social media posts from moderation. Those lies were actively hurting people and needed to be stopped. The sites, including TF, have the right to moderate themselves. I just had a post deleted here yesterday, and you don't see me screaming "but free speech."

I see your point, but if that’s allowed for, say, the Biden Administration, then it can be used by the loons in charge of public health today to decide what’s true/harmful and what’s not. I’d rather not let anyone in government have that power.

Edit: I just realized that you probably meant that social media sites have the right to police their content. I agree with that. To me, that’s not a free speech issue.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Putin's first moves as well, for what it's worth.

It's the obvious one. Folk just don't realize what they're sacrificing when they want "the other side" silenced....

 

[CrimsonJazz]

As a libertarian, I condemn this action completely. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that most people only champion 1A when it’s working in their favor. Crap like this is one of the many reasons I can’t vote for either establishment party.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Sadly... Yes... And they will be blaming all of the disasters to come on Biden, so they can maintain that fiction for a very long time indeed.

It will be very interesting in years to come to see which schizophrenic version of Biden prevails in assessments of this time.

Will it be the left trying to tell all of us that we couldn’t believe our own eyes and when the camera lights were off, Biden was the second coming of John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” energy wise?

Or will it be the right trying to tell us out of the same hypocritical mouth that Biden was baked and possibly dead while simultaneously overseeing every detail of a criminal empire that would have been the envy of Tony Soprano?

 

[75thru79]

As a libertarian, I condemn this action completely. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that most people only champion 1A when it’s working in their favor. Crap like this is one of the many reasons I can’t vote for either establishment party.

I don't belong to any political party but vote based on conservative values. This is not where we, as a nation, need to be focusing our energies on. No jury in the world is going to convict James Comey for his cutesy-pootsy little shell thing. It was just stupid and juvenile. Nothing more. We also don't need to do anything to the networks either as long as their reporting is fair and somewhat balanced. No, it has not been balanced in the last 10 years or so but it is trending in the right direction. Threatening them because they hate Trump is wrong. I really can't wait for Trump to go away (I don't mean killed or impeached) and we can get someone in the White House that has some dignity and governs from the middle of the aisle. No MAGA, no Democratic Socialists of America.

 

[Tidewater]

It's the obvious one. Folk just don't realize what they're sacrificing when they want "the other side" silenced....

That happens a lot in Washington these days. We freely discard a norm, and then are surprised when the other side discards seemingly related norms as well. Harry Reid accepting simple majority vote on federal judicial appointments only to watch as Mitch McConnell applied that to Supreme Court nominees. (This tit-for-tat has not aged well from the Democrats' perspective.)