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Just to be clear: they suspended him for criticizing MAGA for trying to claim that the killer wasn't one of them. He didn't say anything about Charlie Kirk. He was censored for speaking truth by his own network. Not only censored, censured and suspended indefinitely.
We're 100% there kids. The founding fathers made a point to put something right after freedom of speech, from religion, and of assembly. Right there 2nd in order. Unabridged. Welp the 1st amendment is being abridged as we speak. And I hear that second thing was put in place to protect that first thing. I've been hearing it for over 50 years.
*quick edit in case anyone else wants to try to educate me about the constitution: no, he isn't protected by the 1st amendment from getting suspended. ABC should be protected but seeing as they've already settled for $16 million over threats on their FCC license and brought in new trump-friendly leadership, we can all agree he wasn't suspended due to ratings drops. Stop pretending things are normal. This is an obvious 1st amendment issue.
Yep.
It's not just "ABC" either, it's Disney/Hulu.
I just canceled both services and everyone else should too.
Fuck em. All they care about is money, so let's show them that siding with fascism costs a shit ton of money
If nothing else it will get the CEO who did this fired.
Anyone who reads this... Cancel them all and spend a few 100 bucks setting up a Jellyfin server.
I'm an old head, everything I watch on Hulu/Disney I have on Plex.
I was just subscribing because I have disposable income and wanted my dollars to count as eyeballs on media I enjoy.
But fuck that.
A significant amount drop in subscribers not only has a real chance to change their mind, it makes every other corp reevaluate whether to fight trump or not.
When you cancel it asks for a reason, and “Other” gives freeform text - I let them know that bending the knee on fascism was my line.
Yeah same although I'm now concerned about that ending up on my Palantir profile. Isn't it great that that's actually a fairly legitimate concern nowadays?
There's some solace in dying in a prison camp next to men and women and children that also hate fascists.
Way ahead of you. I dont watch Disney anything but I'm about to fill my disks with Disney crap and seed away.
Whats jellyfin?
Before streaming really caught on, we didn't bother with cable TV. I used to spend a considerable amount of time each week downloading all my family's favorite shows, and burning them onto DVDs to watch at our leisure. No schedules, no commercials, rewind a scene at my convenience, etc. it was well worth the trouble.
When streaming started, I got caught up in platform creep, like everyone else. I started with Netflix, and the next thing I know, I've got a half dozen or more subscriptions. I slowed down on downloading, only grabbing the occasional movie, but now there are so many streaming platforms that subscribing to the necessary ones costs more than cable. So I'm going back to pirating again, starting with any ABC programming. I seldom watch Disney stuff, but something pops up now and then. I watch Hulu pretty often, but I don't mind downloading Only Murders in the Building instead.
Amother tip: My current cable plan includes built in TIVO, so I record a lot of shows to watch later. When I do, I can skip the commercials, which is what hurts them more than anything. People think media companies exist to serve entertaining programming, but that's not true at all, that's just the illusion they offer viewers. All they really are is advertising platforms. That's their real business, and their real mission - to get us to watch the advertising that their clients pay for. The entertainment programming is just bait, to get us to sit on our asses in front of the TV, hoping that when the ads come on, we'll be too lazy to get up and walk away, so they'll rape our minds with enticing ads for overpriced consumer goods from China. I'm actually surprised they haven't tried to prohibit TIVO.
So when you skip the commercials, you are effectively doing the same thing as pirating - removing the way they make money. NOTHING hurts them worse than consuming their expensive bait, without paying for it by either watching the ads, or paying their subscription.
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I’ll leave this idea here: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
Wait, Walt Disney would never side with Nazis…would he!!!!?!
Unfortunately I don't have an account to cancel.
Seed more
Dicks out, torrents up
If you care about democracy and not what some Republican fascist say, right now is the time to buy a gun. The 2nd amendment will be purged next.
...from my cold dead hands, as they say
Hold up - it goes a layer deeper and is actually fairly similar to what happened to Colbert.
ABC had their hand forced because of a pending merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tenga, which once the FCC approves it, would place Nexstar in ownership of 80% of local TV channels in the US. Nexstar is based in Texas, so it's not exactly ABC-Disney friendly.
So they threatened to censor Kimmel themselves on local TV stations unless ABC did it for them. They had on the ground infrastructure power to do this.
And yes, we're 100% there. The key point is to understand that while everyone sees ABC as the Big Bad here, it's the infrastructure companies that have leverage and no one knows their names or how much they actually own.
Edit: Just saw this - Sinclair's local ABC affiliates are replacing Kimmel reruns will air their own CK tribute show, just on their own whatever, fuck ABC's programming.
It was a pretty tame comment too. What a bunch of snow flakes.
2A for all. Time to resist in other ways