| ▲ | eth0up 18 hours ago |
| I could say a lot of mean things about Jimmy. But what good would it do? I can't stand him. But I will stand up for his right to say whatever he says. If this country, this side or that side, on a razor's edge or done gone cosmic can't see what looms in this direction, just take a chance and oppose it while you can. You don't want to live the alternative. Quite seriously |
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| ▲ | FredPret 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| He has a right to say whatever he says, but surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it? He has a right to speak his mind, not to have a show. |
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| ▲ | queenkjuul 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The FCC does not have the legal right to threaten him for what he said | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > 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.) | | |
| ▲ | FredPret 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | bandyaboot 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Did you even read the piece? |
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| ▲ | pixxel 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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