Author: Daniel snow

Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel and the Rise of Corporate Censorship

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My reaction when I heard about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was, Oh, [EXPLETIVE]. I immediately flashed back to the television show that Vladimir Putin took off the air. It was a puppet show. It wasn’t even that great, but its whole thing was that it ridiculed people in power. And it reduced them to the size of puppets. It made them look not just plainly human, but even less than human. And I think that’s the real power of comedians in an autocracy, is that they reduce the tyrant to human size, or even to less than human size. If you…

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Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel and the Rise of Corporate Censorship

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Censorship is here. “Jimmy Kimmel …” ”Jimmy Kimmel …” “Jimmy Kimmel …” ”Jimmy Kimmel …” But doesn’t look the way we thought it would. “Off the air ——” “Indefinitely.” Government censorship is not really what we’re seeing here. We’re seeing a kind of corporate censorship. “Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC.” They are firing or pausing programs that Donald Trump doesn’t like. We’re only nine months into Trump’s second administration, and already we are two late-night television hosts down. Brendan Carr, the head of the F.C.C., goes on Benny Johnson’s podcast and starts complaining about Jimmy Kimmel. “We can do…

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Opinion | Gov. Spencer Cox on the Trump Administration’s Crackdown

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“You said that the evidence suggests the shooter had a leftist ideology. I’ve watched the Trump administration in the days since saying that there is a crackdown on what they call the radical left, without defining it. That is now necessary, that we shouldn’t be thinking of this as the act of one man. We should be thinking of it as the outcome of some broader network, culture, ideology, that if this is to be a safe society needs to be repressed, suppressed, destroyed. What have you thought about that?” “So I’ve obviously heard that. I’ve tried to be careful…

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