Right wing cancel culture at it again.

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This really is a scary time for free speech.

Another example right wing hypocrisy when it comes to free speech:

Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspended-indefinitely-after-hosts-charlie-kirk-comments?CMP=share_btn_url

Because in the U.K. there are no specific hate speech laws*. There is some criminalisation of ‘hate speech’ via anti discrimination legislation More widely there are de facto hate speech laws created through the intersection of other laws and hate crime legislation. Effectively someone arrested for, for example, a section 127 offence with an aggravated element under hate crime legislation is being arrested for what would be covered in other jurisdictions by specific hate speech laws.

*the Wikipedia entry you linked to explains this.

It doesn't matter, Jimmy can still say what he wants to say, the private company that runs the broadcasts can make decisions based on potential loss of revenue.

If you truly don't realise that having to curtail free speech (of reasonable views) due to the threat of financial repercussions is not an affront to democracy, then I don't know what to tell you.

The right wing have said much worse about democrats but are not facing any repercussions. Says it all.

Not sure what you're failing to understand. The only thing Jimmy has lost is his exposure, he still retains his right to say what he likes.

It's a private company, Nomas, they've made a financial decision.

Similar to what happened when thousands of people got banned from twitter, a private company made a decision.

All employers normally have rules about things like social media etc and warn that it’s possibly gross misconduct to bring the company into disrepute, I don’t see how he’s any different to the rest of us that have to follow these rules. Without seeing his employment contract no one can say if he’s been treated unfairly.

He's a comedian

exactly, and the responses on this thread are bonkers.

Yes but the difference between the two is the victim was offended because of hate rather than:

A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if—
(a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.

IE one is causing personal offence the other is stirring up racial hatred.

Do you know how many comedians have been cancelled over the last decade?

<sadly laughs out loud>

By Jimmy Kimmel?

Eh? It's literally his job to talk, he's a talk show host. Your job isn't relevant.

The crucial difference is they weren't cancelled by the government…which is specifically anti first amendment.

Kimmel was cancelled by the private company that owned the broadcast, please get your facts right

The company was coerced by the government…get your facts straight.

CK deserved it though, right? TR was only giving him what was coming to him, being all abhorrent and all

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic

Sorry, Left people, please don't be hypocritical.

What, like facebook was by Biden?

The crucial difference being a public health emergency…🤡

The company was coerced by the government…get your facts straight

What would’ve happened if the company had refused to be coerced?

Personally I don’t think Jimmy Kimmel should have been sacked - unless he made jokes or gloated over Charlie Kirk’s death - but presumably there will be plenty of other networks who will hire him.

Sure.

They can lose their licence to broadcast.

Oh I know, I know….

😂 Quite. No fcks left to give on this

ABC made their own mind up.They've literally been 100% against Trump, with no reprieve for a decade.

Your head is full of fantasy bogeymen

ABC sensed a move in the zeitgeist (a bit too late for their trust and viewing figures) and it is simply all about the money - they are a business.

Yup! Who knew?!