What is going on in the US with the canceling of Jimmy Kommel’s TV show? From what I read all he said was that the shooter might be right wing and that MAGA is desperately trying to pin it on the left. That appears exactly mirroring MAGAs messaging who have been blaming the left very hard everywhere, including the President. How is what he does wrong according to his employers but what MAGA is doing OK? I honestly don’t understand the difference
- The FCC threatened to block the Paramount + SkyDance merger unless Colbert was cancelled.
- Then Colbert was cancelled, effective next year.
- Trump then said that Kimmel was next.
- The FCC threatened to block the Nexstar + Tegna merger unless Kimmel was cancelled. Nexstar then told Disney/ABC that they would stop airing Kimmel in the stations that they own and control all over the country.
- Then Kimmel was cancelled immediately.
- Trump has no said that Jimmy [Falon?] and Seth [Meyers] are next…
- Can you guess what will happen next?
Trump the the Republicans are, one-by-one, silencing their most vocal critics and dissenters. They started with news media, then they moved to entertainment media, and from there they will move on to corporate social media next. This is state control of media and blatant censorship of criticism. End of story.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say that the Fediverse will be the last bastion of free speech and political criticism on the internet, because the same pressures that Trump and the Republicans can apply to Paramount and Disney, they can also apply to Reddit, Meta, X, and Oracle. Corporate will ALWAYS capitulate to fascism–they aren’t even bothering to fight back–because the only thing they care about in the slightest is money.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say that the Fediverse will be the last bastion of free speech and political criticism on the internet, because the same pressures that Trump and the Republicans can apply to Paramount and Disney, they can also apply to Reddit, Meta, X, and Oracle. Corporate will ALWAYS capitulate to fascism–they aren’t even bothering to fight back–because the only thing they care about in the slightest is money.
.world does the same narrative shaping that legacy-media, facebook, reddit, etc. does and the free speech & political criticism you’re hoping will live on will do so in the same way it does now; buried into suppression.
“Fediverse”, not lemmy.world. These hosts can come and go and that makes them slightly more resilient to this sort of censorship. Not each, but as a whole.
very true and i’m glad you’ve pointed this out.
however i expect defederation to be leveraged to this end like it already has.
It’s not supposed to make sense. It’s supposed to silence dissent from right wing narratives. They are never acting in good faith
All you need to know is from Trumps post about Colbert getting cancelled. He said it there that Kimmel was next.
And in his post about Kimmel he said Fallon and Myers are next.
That’s it. That’s all you need to know. There’s no other rhyme or reason other than the wailing of a sad frail man with way too much power.
He showed a video of how little trump cared about the death, and that made the admin look bad, so it used the FCC to pressure companies into letting him go. You know, blatantly violating the first amendment.
Drop any idea that they care about having integrity or following certain principles. They say what they like to wield power at any given time.
They do not care if their behavior or reasoning is inconsistent and they laugh at your confusion regarding it.
You got it in 1.
Trump’s a wannabe facist, so his crony at the FCC corruptly pressured the employer of a comedian he doesn’t like into firing said comedian.
Make note of this, and refer back to it for the next several decades anytime anyone on the right bitches about “cancel culture” or “free speech”.
Not sure I’d call him a “wannabe” fascist at this point. Dude is ignoring the constitution, consolidating control over the media, isolating the US culturally and economically, and has picked at least two out groups to pin blame on while sending one (for now) to concentration camps. He’s playing blackout on the fascist bingo card and we’re less than a year in.
Cannot wait to see what kind of shit Hollywood will crank out as a result of things like this.
It was bad enough when they over-corrected and did lots of stupid shit like Ghostbusters 2016 or Star Wars Acolyte…but now I bet they go complete Gilead and it will get even stupider.
Was Ghostbusters an “over correction” because they dared to make them women?
Cooked like hot beef.
You don’t know how to Google things and read? Do you think anybody here has any knowledge they got got from some other method?
Are you suggesting googling around the internet is in all cases better than community discussion with people of varying expertise, some of which can provide tailored evidence to help you find good information? I’m not so sure.
