Facing pressure from the Trump administration on Monday, ABC—owned by Disney—announced it would be suspending the late-night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely,” after the host came under attack from fascists and Trump administration officials over his commentary on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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      Have to make an example to keep the npcs in line.

      The entire point of this is promoting self censorship in us, the ordinary people. We should be afraid to say what we think if its not politically correct.

      It works too. Even Lemmy has plenty of people supporting censorship of opinions.

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        It works too. Even Lemmy has plenty of people supporting censorship of opinions.

        Especially, if ygu have the “wrong” opinion on a major conflict or what does and does not count as genocide.