Jimmy's greatest sin was being unfunny and having terrible ratings.

His second greatest was lying about Charlie Kirk's assassin.

Even if he did lie, that's absolutely protected speech and the FCC is out of line. Every Constitution-respecting American knows this and would be against the FCC saying anything no matter what party was in charge.

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lenerdenator 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Okay, then the person he lied about can file a defamation suit. That still doesn't fall within the FCC's regulatory authority, so far as I can tell. They're not the arbiters of what is and isn't a lie; a judge or jury during the defamation trial is.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The FCC is well enabled to make judgment calls. Yes a network can bring that judgement call in front of an actual judge in a court of law. That doesn't mean the FCC lacks the authority for such calls, only that the judge likely has higher authority.

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lenerdenator 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have an example of the FCC enforcing action against a television broadcaster or personality for saying something materially similar to what Kimmel said, at the same time slot and same genre of programming, on the basis that it was false and/or defamatory, without any sort of pre-existing court case related to the same?

	▲	ahmeneeroe-v2 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		insane standard. how would you ever govern with that as your standard?

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pupppet 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Look at you straight-up parroting Trump's comments.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I assure you Trump did not invent "jimmy Kimmel isn't funny"

	▲	hamdingers 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Beautiful motte you've got there.

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craftkiller 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> having terrible ratings.

Not true. His ratings have him right in the middle of the pack: https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q...

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thunderfork 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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