(September 18, 2025 at 2:39 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Jimmy Kimmel canceled by ABC
USA does not need infringement of free speech by government. The public sphere is completely able to censor itself.
You know how to boil a frog in a fascist pot?
ABC isn't public, though. It isn't in "the public sphere."
It's a private for-profit company owned by Nexstar. The directors of Nexstar are obligated to turn a profit for their shareholders.
Nexstar has agreed to buy a rival conglomerate, Tegna, for billions of dollars. The deal requires FCC approval, because it would violate current regulations on how many TV stations one company can own in any given market. If Brendan Carr is mad at Nexstar it could endanger the deal.
Trump's FCC has generally been in favor of loosening regulations on media companies like this. Not for free speech reasons, obviously, but to help rich people get richer.
Legacy media is losing viewers fast. A lot of people voted for Trump. If a significant number of those people decide to stop watching Nexstar stations or going to Disney attractions, some rich people won't make as much money as they could.
For-profit media can't be trusted to censor itself. It doesn't exist to tell the truth.
You seem to be expecting some kind of Hitler-like fascism, but what we've got is corporate totalitarianism. It's too late to stop that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
