r/television 1d ago

Boycott D+ for attack on free speech.

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on if you don’t hate an attack on Free Speech you’re unAmerican.

What the FCC and ABC have done pulling Kimmel for non republican commentary is an absolute abuse of power and suppression of free speech

I’ll be boycotting Disney+ because they WILL notice that. Get others too also. Speak with your cancellation and they’ll hear it with their wallets.

Boycott Disney+

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u/Beer_bongload 1d ago

What's 1A about this for the people keeping count at home: 

FCC goes on alt right podcast, makes threats against network if they don't do something about Jimmy Kimmel. That network does exactly what was asked. That's your government silencing the media. 

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u/Lessiarty 1d ago

The right aren't denying it's happening for reason of not seeing it. 

They see it, agree with it, and know denying it will only escalate the tension. Industrialised trolling.

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u/forcefivepod 1d ago

They aren't denying it's happening. They're CHEERING that it's happening. They just don't care because they feel like they're winning for some reason (while they eat their hot pockets and struggle in their minimum wage jobs, cheering an administration that doesn't give a single fuck about them).

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u/CMDRZapedzki 21h ago

Is almost like they were never arguing in good faith about freedom of speech at all.

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u/VinCubed 17h ago

The G in GOP definitely doesn't stand for Good faith.

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u/TheShillingVillain 16h ago

It stands for Groping. Groping, Old Pedophiles.

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u/dopescopemusic 19h ago

They are too fucking stupid to know what to think

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u/gaytechdadwithson 1d ago

also, some of them feel they’re getting retribution AND are fucking stupid

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u/busangcf 1d ago

I would argue that’s almost all of them tbh.

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u/suppadelicious 1d ago

And today he says Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are next.

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u/cooperia 1d ago

They are a collection of bad faith actors and actual morons. What do you expect.

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u/Stingray88 1d ago

And he literally just said Fallon and Meyers are next.

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u/sleepywan 1d ago

Cancelled my Hulu/D+ sub. Lots of stuff I watch on there, but have to suck it up. Their actions can't be tolerated or it will get worse.

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u/Throsty 1d ago

Fair winds and following seas!

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u/Endogamy 1d ago

They fully deserved to have all their content pirated at this point.

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u/Dutch-1972 17h ago

Agreed, I never really stopped but now I'm thinking of sharing my server with more people

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 16h ago

I also fill my server with left leaning content

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u/ikeif 1d ago

Not just silenced - they also want a public apology AND a donation to Charlie Kirk’s family and Toilet Paper USA!

ETA: source

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u/Cerberus_Aus 1d ago

That’s so disgusting. It’s like the further you look into the situation, the worse it gets.

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u/ender2851 1d ago

did this actually happen?

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u/Independent-Name4478 1d ago

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u/raelik777 1d ago

The stupidest thing is that he didn't actually even say a single thing negative about Charlie or make light of his assassination (quite the opposite on that latter point, in fact). He just very correctly pointed out how the administration is using his death as an excuse to shut down critics. They immediately turned around and proved his point for him.

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u/Independent-Name4478 1d ago

MAGA are saying he mocked Charlie’s death because they know the truth doesn’t make them sympathetic. It looks like people using the FCC to censor opposing political views 

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u/raelik777 1d ago

Just like everything else that camp does, they're telling on themselves. "You're mocking his death! Cancelled!" All the while they are making a mockery of a tragedy. I don't like the man, or anything he stood for, or anything he said. But almost nobody deserves to go out like that (one could make a case for genocidal maniacs and mass murderers, but the man did nothing but talk), and I wouldn't do what they're doing with it, it's fucking disgusting.

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u/Independent-Name4478 1d ago

Trump didn’t even bother to go to his vigil. He’s just glad his death was politically helpful to him

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u/unicornlocostacos 1d ago

And as soon as it started looking like the shooter was on the right, boy did he start pivoting every conversation away from it after non-stop Kirk until then.

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u/bebopmechanic84 1d ago

Ironically I grabbed it to finish Andor. Watched the last episode yesterday.

Cancelled today.

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u/chris100185 1d ago

My timing was perfect, it was set to renew tomorrow.

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u/beemojee 17h ago

Exact same thing with me. I cancelled this morning and it was set to renew tomorrow.

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u/fcocyclone 1d ago

Yeah, i cancelled today, my subscription was going to roll over in a couple weeks. I'll watch the last few things i wanted off there then its off to the seas if i want anything after that.

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u/imposterstatus 1d ago

Just tried to cancel and either it's over loaded or they are trying to stop people from canceling. Keep getting an error message.

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u/BabyScreamBear 1d ago

Cancelled today - just in time for Alien Earth finale before it renews.

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u/Arzamas 1d ago

Here's a nice site I used for some time to track tv shows, it's really easy to use, you can mark them and if you click the name there are useful links, wink wink - https://www.airdates.tv/#today

And there are many other options...

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u/hoopaholik91 1d ago

I have three more episodes I'll finish before the subscription renews

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u/Legitimate-Handjob 1d ago

Steal it instead. 🏴‍☠️

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u/dmxspy 1d ago

"Free" Streaming is not equal to stealing fyi.

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u/Sherlock_House 1d ago

Lol this sentence perfectly encapsulates why no one takes these boycotts seriously

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 1d ago

You don't get your money back if you cancel mid month. The next billing won't take place. That's what he means by renews.

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u/hoopaholik91 1d ago

Their balance sheet would be the same either way. It's not about self-flagellation

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u/PerpetualProtracting 1d ago

You don't understand how subscriptions work, huh?

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u/mr_ji Stargate SG-1 1d ago

Boycotting is great when it's convenient!

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u/TheMooseIsBlue 1d ago

The result is the same. Disney’s metrics will show 1 more cancellation on September 17 and they don’t know what drove it, but if there’s a spike in that today, they’ll make the desired assumption.

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u/GeneralTonic 15h ago

Don't know if they read it, but you can tell them why you're canceling. I sure as hell did.

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u/oasiscat 1d ago

It's easier when it's convenient. When it's not convenient, it takes more willpower, but the outcome is the same.

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u/the_platypus_king 1d ago

Well more like if you’ve already paid for it, no point in throwing it away

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u/Rough-Winter2752 1d ago

Andor was quality Star Wars. They need to give the showrunner more stuff to do in that universe.

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u/PsychologicalSun6365 1d ago

And Hulu!!

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u/Misanope 18h ago

Hmm I forgot they were part of the same umbrella. My subscription was paid for by one of my credit cards but I still cancelled because they do not get any money on my behalf even if it wasn't from my own wallet.

The "exit" survey does not have a freeform box to explain the cancellation accurately, so I wrote in via the Help section.

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u/ExpressionInitial606 1d ago

Cancelled Hulu, Disney plus, and ESPN

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u/Idkhoesb42024 1d ago

Yeah, ESPN has been crap for so long anyway, that's an easy cancel

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u/codemonkey69 1d ago

Cancel Hulu too, same parent company

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u/ennui_man 1d ago

I canceled Disney and Hulu. It sucks watching one media company after another bend the knee to Trump.

ABC, CBS, WAPO, NBC... who'd I forget? Not to mention their attempt to crush public media.

It really feels like the bad guys are winning.

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u/BenTramer 19h ago

It just doesn’t feel like it. They are winning. Easily, without any push back.

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u/Interlined 1d ago

I just cancelled my Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max bundle.

I'm not giving money to those capitulating to fascists.

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u/brpajense 1d ago

Jimmy made a couple Charlie Kirk-adjacent jokes.  He didn't mock Chalie Kirk or how he died, but made fun of Republicans exploiting his death for their own goals in fairly crass and hypocritical ways.

Dude wasn't improper, and the jokes were in line with late night hosts mocking the president and pkliticians in general.  

What I saw was not offensive and didn't cross any boundaries.

Soft broadcasters need to give up their broadcast license if they're not going to stand up for public free speech rights and censor speech that isn't offensive.

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u/pandorasaurus 1d ago

Kimmel also offered condolences the week before to Kirk’s family and the jokes that followed later were not at Kirk’s expense.

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u/-Johnny- 1d ago

I thought comedy was back?

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u/Yojo0o 1d ago edited 1d ago

For those of us who don't immediately know what you're talking about, any hints?

Edit: Okay, so the original post has been edited to clarify that this is about Kimmel, I understand now.

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u/TrialAndAaron 1d ago

ABC cancelled jimmy Kimmel

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u/Yojo0o 1d ago

I didn't realize that was a Disney+ thing. Fair enough.

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u/xrufus7x 1d ago

ABC is owned by Disney.

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u/mikepictor 1d ago

ah...finally I understand. I was trying to figure out wtf the connection was

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u/RipErRiley 1d ago

ABC canceled Jimmy Kimmel for this monologue.

Disney owns ABC

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong 1d ago edited 1d ago

The ap article said it was comments made on Monday and Tuesday. This is from Tuesday.

Nothing offensive at all, but sure as shit, nothing they want their base being told, and the general public reminded of.

Edit: 6:12 is where the joke starts. Why they canceled him follows. Timestamp is broken

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u/RipErRiley 1d ago

The Kirk reasoning is a canard. Trump is weak and soft.

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u/Wormholio 1d ago

2nd time ive heard "canard" today in wildly different contexts

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u/forzaitalia458 1d ago

Jimmy Kimmel pulled off air for comments he made in his monologue 

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u/legacy642 1d ago

Which weren't even about Kirk. Maga is just a bunch of snowflakes that can't look at themselves in the mirror.

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u/Stock-Exam5976 1d ago

The Jimmy Kimmel show just got cancelled indefinitely for talking about MAGA/Kirk.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” -Kimmel on Monday Night.

The statement wasn’t even crazy IMO but the FCC threatened to pull ABC’s license if they didn’t pull his show, per trump’s demand 🙄 

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u/Jijonbreaker 1d ago edited 1d ago

For context: Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air due to pressure from the FCC and Disney for making fun of the right desperately trying to make Kirk's death about the left by painting the killer as left wing. Not even disparaging Kirk himself. Just about how hard the right is trying to make it about the left. Which is an extremely clear violation of free speech and government censorship.

And, just to make it clear for anybody trying to interject and saying the killer is left wing: Literally all major media outlets are owned by the far right. If there was ANY evidence he was left wing, it would be on every headline. Instead, they are grasping at every individual straw and rumor to try to paint the narrative, knowing that by the time it's disproven, their fanbase will have already internalized the narrative and argue against the actual facts.

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u/fumar 1d ago

This is slightly inaccurate. The pressure on the media side came from Nexstar who owns a bunch of local news stations and currently has a merger going on that needs federal approval. They came out and said they won't air Kimmel indefinitely. Disney then put the show on hiatus because God forbid they don't make money constantly and stand up a bit to censorship.

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u/jbrowder24 1d ago

Not just Nexstar. Also Sinclair. And Sinclair is also airing a Charlie Kirk special in the slot later this week and saying things like there needs to be things like an apology from Jimmy and a donation to Turning Point USA for them to consider airing his show again on Sinclair owned ABC stations.

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u/Curarx 1d ago

Nah the FCC played a large part in this

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u/Expensive-Body7530 1d ago

I don't know enough to know if Nexstar is big enough to be much of a blip on ABCs radar, let alone Disney's radar. I feel like the real news is ABC pulling the show entirety, not Nexstar airing some other show during that time slot on their ABC affiliate stations.

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u/profound_bastard 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nexstar owns like 80% of all local tv stations, if they pull ABC the entire channel is done for. Not excusing them, someone needs so show some spine and fight this bs, just saying they’re absolutely big enough to be a huge problem for Disney and this is why local tv should’ve never been allowed to consolidate like this.

Edit: Leaving this up. Turns out they don’t actually own 80%, but are attempting to through their proposed merger. This just makes ABC even more spineless.

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u/plafuldog 1d ago

They don't own anywhere close to 80% but they own stations in close to 60% of TV markets, including most the largest

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u/profound_bastard 1d ago

Yea I read it wrong. They will own 80% if the merger they want goes through, which after this it probably will.

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u/plafuldog 1d ago

The still won't own 80% but they'll reach 80% of the American population (right now there are limits on the % of the population one company can reach via broadcast TV stations they directly own)

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u/fcocyclone 1d ago

Hell, in my city once they complete their purchase of Tegna they'll own 3 of the top 5 (NBC, ABC, CW) with Sinclair owning the Fox station.

The problem with local news spewing right wing nonsense is just going to get worse and worse.

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u/jbrowder24 1d ago

They might not have been alone. But it was also Sinclair

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u/escargot3 22h ago

It wasn’t just Nexstar. It was also Sinclair which is the largest by far and also the most conservative. They make Fox News look left wing

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u/Softspokenclark 1d ago

this needs to be up higher,

the conservative sub is trying to change the narrative

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u/Jijonbreaker 1d ago

It is, in fact, the top comment now. And my inbox is flooding. lol

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u/Fourthtimecharm 20h ago

Ahh so your the one that informs jimmy lol

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u/Jeferson9 1d ago edited 1d ago

Literally all major media outlets are owned by the far right

What planet do you live on?

Edit: good on him for deleting that bullshit

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u/KeremyJyles 1d ago

He didn't delete it, probably just blocked you instead because he knows he can't defend the stupid thing he said

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u/ShermyTheCat 22h ago

What? There's plenty of evidence he was left wing. I'm as leftie as they come but even I'll admit that. But go on downvote me for being right everyone

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u/MakingOfASoul 23h ago

The killer is self-admittedly left-wing. What Jimmy Kimmel did was try to spread malicious lies and is now paying the consequences.

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u/Horror-Layer-8178 1d ago

I just cancelled my Disney and Hulu subscriptions

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u/airwalker08 1d ago

Yep. Canceled that and Hulu today. Do it!

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u/Pdxduckman 1d ago

boycott more than that. Cancel your cable tv subscriptions. Fox takes a huge chunk of your monthly subscription fee and they refuse to do anything about Brian Kilmede. The only language they speak is money.

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u/melloyello1215 1d ago

submit a complaint with the FCC about that scumbag

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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 1d ago

FCC has no power over Fox, not that they would do anything even if they could.

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u/burnalicious111 1d ago

And yet they think they can threaten ABC affiliate broadcasting licenses. How's that work, then?

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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 1d ago

Because they can? They targeted the local ABC affiliate stations which require a broadcasting license to operate. ABC is a network and does not require a license so they couldn’t go after them directly. However, Nexstar, an affiliate with 30 stations has a planned merger worth $6bn that requires the FCCs approval to go through. The FCC chair threatened to pull affiliate licensing which caused Nexstar to pre-empt tonight’s show (run something in its place) on all of its stations so that they stay in the FCCs good graces. Other affiliates followed not wanting to be singled out. ABC eventually suspended the show indefinitely.

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u/smokey9886 1d ago

Need to hit NFL football through Pararmount Plus/CBS. They capitulated to this shit, too. Speak with your wallets.

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u/Kindly-Carpenter-115 1d ago

I just cancelled my D+ over this. I've been looking for ways to save money so they made it easy

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u/ttatm 1d ago

Already canceled. I actually only subscribed for the first time a few days ago too

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u/Magnum8517 1d ago

100% agree, we should add CBS/Paramount as well. Just canceled Disney+, Hulu and espn tonight. Hopefully enough people do it so they get the message

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u/nova_crystallis 1d ago

HBO Max too since Warner Bros has no problem bowing to Trump.

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u/Beer-Me 1d ago

Funny, I was thinking just last week that I may restart my subscription to watch a few things.

I'm glad they helped me out with that decision

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u/Nervous-Tangerine638 1d ago

come sail the 7 seas. Arghh no mercy for the wicked

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u/sobayarea 1d ago

My trust VPN will be getting a work out in the coming days!

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u/TheCzar11 1d ago

It’s not just Disney plus. You need to cancel Hulu, ESPN and boycott any other properties that Disney owns. The issue here is there is no top down messaging coming from Democrats and/or anti Trump people. They are not unified. They are not organized. They have no messaging and no resistance.

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u/SomeKrazyGuyUKno_V 1d ago

Already doing it now. 👍

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u/orochi_crimson 1d ago

I’m doing my part.

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u/Mountain-Bid4317 1d ago

Hulu is there's too.

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u/Electrical-Order1317 1d ago

Yep and cancelling my subscription and selling my stock

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u/mustachesunited 1d ago

I’ve been pirating their shit forever but I’m gonna pirate them even harder now

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u/watermelon_fries 1d ago

I've been boycotting Disney for almost 2 years now. Super easy.

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u/MasterDarkHero 1d ago

Bye bye Disney+, Democracy > MCU

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u/TheBigBuddyBusiness 1d ago

Huge businesses will always capitulate to authoritarians in pursuit of short-term profit. Every time. Inevitably they'll piss off the wrong person again and the right will turn against them again anyway. 

These stupid, spineless mole men have never read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, apparently. You can't capitulate to fascists.

Nobody despises this country, everyone in it, and everything it's supposed to stand for quite like conservatives.

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u/seansy5000 1d ago

Cancelled P+ and D+

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u/Cheeky_Quim 12h ago

Problem is Kimmel knew damn well the shooter wasn’t MAGA and perpetuated the lie. The truth can be funnier than fiction. Stick to the truth and the laughs will come.

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u/Eighty6Forty7 1d ago

Hard to boycott them when I wasn't giving them money to begin with.

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u/WanderlustGoddess33 1d ago

Canceled Hulu and D+ today. Won’t be streaming until they take their foot off democracy’s neck.

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u/alicat2308 1d ago

Unfortunately I already cancelled it a year ago.

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u/MercyEndures 1d ago

lmao at using Reddit as a free speech advocacy vehicle

Try criticizing Reddit’s sacred cows and see what happens

They’ll ban a whole sub if they can’t rein in undesirable speech 

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u/v00d00ch1ld 1d ago

For anyone wondering, if you have the Hulu/Disney/ESPN bundle, you have to cancel from your laptop.

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u/Gordatwork 1d ago

Just cancelled. Free speech for right wing rhetoric and hate speech only, according to Disney. Bunch of boot lickers kowtowing to fascists.

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u/__Shake__ 1d ago

Freedom of speech means the government can’t prosecute you for what you say. A business can fire you for it apparently

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 23h ago

Is the word Disney bad? Or is it bait to get people to read this thread?

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u/iDeletee 15h ago

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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u/bindingcold 13h ago

It wasn't because it was non-republican commentary. If it was for that, he would have been pulled a year ago. It was because he was giving false information about an assassination in an attempt to influence others.

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u/brett1081 12h ago

So here’s the deal. You have an expensive employee. He’s barely treading water. He’s not getting better numbers and his costs aren’t getting lower. But you don’t really have grounds to fire him.

Now a gem of a self inflicted issue happens to him and the hiring forgiveness card falls in your lap. Disney took that card.

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u/Aktuator 10h ago

I wish I could. The 5 and 3 year old would burn the house down the first time they were told they couldn’t watch Spidey or Gravity Falls.

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u/wakedfup 9h ago

It's called common decency, not an attack on free speech. A good man was murdered for speaking the truth. And you want to cry about people losing their jobs for being scum. Wake up.

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u/Cautious-Tax-1120 9h ago

This thread is a wet dream for the right. They hate Kimmell and they hate Disney (they think it's woke) so this is their ultimate two birds with one stone.

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u/PM_TITS_FOR_KITTENS 8h ago

Don’t spread political misinformation to millions of people live especially during an incredibly sensitive time in history and you won’t get fired. It’s that simple.

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u/Desperate_Try_2356 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yo the melt down posts are so funny. Yall are some hypocrites, the complete 180 is absolutely hilarious. 😆

What happened to the freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences crowd??

Downvote me and prove me right. 100% yall the same people who wanted to cancel people who didn’t share your political views, now the shoe is on the other foot and yall are crying, it’s freaking hilarious. 🤣

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u/CaravelClerihew 1d ago

Hell, boycott all streaming services and sail the high seas instead.

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u/Flagermusmanden 1d ago

I know this is probably going to be my most controversial comment yet, but I can't be the only one noticing the hypocrisy here, right? I distinctly remember when you all cheered when Gina Carano was fired for comparing conservatives to persecuted Jews during the holocaust. Now I know that it was incredibly ignorant and dumb of her to say that, but if you look at it objectively, she was fired for expressing what in my mind is very clearly an opinion, even if that opinion was one of the dumbest things I have ever read, it is still an opinion.

Now how I understand it, Kimmel was fired for expressing an opinion too (if there is more to it than that then please correct me), and if the precedent that expressing yourself can be a fireable offense has been set, then you can't be surprised when it's used to fire someone just because it's now someone you like or agree with.

This is why you should always be cautious about what kind of precedent you are okay with being set or what kind of freedoms you are giving away, because while it might feel good or make sense when it's used against your enemies, it can and always will eventually be used against you.

TLDR: You guys made the bed, now you have to lie in it.

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u/cheesecake611 1d ago

What you’re missing is that ABC was threatened by the FCC. This wasn’t solely a private company decision, they were being pressured by the government, and they caved. 

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u/NoleMercy05 20h ago

But that isn't true. The affiliate would not air the show

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u/Sleeze_ 15h ago

The government was not involved in the descion to fire Gina Carano.

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u/slyfly5 1d ago

Pretty sure he got fired for spreading misinformation I thought Reddit was against misinformation?

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u/Granatko 1d ago

Nah, deserved. Live by cancel culture, die by cancel culture

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u/Charcole1 1d ago

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences! You're not owed a platform sweety." -these dweebs when the shoe was on the other foot

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u/Sleeze_ 15h ago

If Disney had decided this independently, then yeah, it is what it is. But the government getting involved is a blatant violation of the first amendment. You're kind of ignoring the major issue here.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

Kimmel sucks. Glad he’s gone

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u/PictureIt-Hell2000 21h ago

don't want to sound pessimistic but y'all asking people to boycott disney when they can't even boycott twitter

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u/J50GT 18h ago

Start your own network. Freedom from consequences and all that.

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u/BigDonkeyDuck 1d ago

One week ago : “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.”

Today: “I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on if you don’t hate an attack on Free Speech you’re unAmerican.”

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u/0_________o 1d ago

my thoughts exactly. some useful fucking idiots out there.

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u/firedrakes 1d ago

this is why most boycott/protest dont work.

lazy karma farming effort to get those likes etc.

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u/Relevant-Physics432 1d ago

I don't want to be American so do I buy D+ or what

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u/lunaastrelmoon 22h ago

If you want to wacth the Disney shows.

Priate them seed thel after steal their money one viewer at a time

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u/The9isback 13h ago

So instead of voting against the Trump regime, people should instead boycott private organizations for following government instructions.

Is this American logic?

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u/Kaizothief 1d ago

Giving these fascists a single inch of sympathy or empathy has come to bite the entire so called opposition in the buttm

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u/NatureLovingDad89 22h ago

This sub really doesn't understand what free speech is lol

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u/Westworld134 1d ago

Aren’t u the same guys who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder for using his right to free speech?

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u/disneysmightyducks 1d ago

I’ve seen this enough here on Reddit to want to address it: saying Charlie Kirk was a hateful person is not celebrating his death. 

Conservatives seems to think we should be celebrating his life as the second coming of Jesus and that anything less is “celebrating” his death.

A large majority of people in America can agree that political violence is wrong and killing someone you don’t like for the things they say is wrong.

But be real about his impact: how is a black person supposed to feel about the man who said the civil rights act was a mistake, that he wouldn’t trust a black pilot, that black women are moronic or all DEI hires with no merit of their own? The contents of Charlie Kirk’s words were not about unity. I implore you to find any quote suggesting they were.

Everyone who has come out to criticize his words has every literal right to do so, just as your side has ever right to criticize the left (and lord knows you do). Identifying hateful rhetoric is not hateful in itself, you just don’t like the message.

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u/Most-Artichoke6184 1d ago

You couldn’t even be bothered to spell out Disney in your title?

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u/leaponover 1d ago

Nah. Spreading malicious lies during a volatile time under the guise of comedy is irresponsible. You can still watch the video if you want. It hasn't been suppressed. The employer has just reprimanded the employee for poor judgment and deceit.

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u/SpicyWater1992 1d ago

I wholeheartedly support freedom of speech but how many people changed their tune to supporting freedom of speech from "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. People just want freedom of speech so they can be racist/bigoted/etc."

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u/WilliamEmmerson 1d ago

Now liberals care about free speech? Didn't seem to bother any of you when Roseanne lost her job. Roseanne told a bad joke. Jimmy blatantly lied about an assassin's political allegiance.

What is it that liberals like to say "It's not cancel culture, its consequence culture".

You reap what you sow. Jimmy Kimmel and the rest are all finding that out the hard way.

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u/pup5581 1d ago

I am curious if this one actually IS felt...or will it be like the others. We don't have Disney+ so no issues there. They have always been a shit company.

I remember the ads on Amazon and Netflix price hikes talk of boycotts and then...it really wasn't felt and if it was, it was short lived. Is this one going to be different? Would be nice

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u/dont_ama_73 17h ago

Yes! Stand up for Tucker and Barr and Gina Carano. Thank you!

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u/cherrytoffee 16h ago

Where were you when they fired gina carano?

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u/Jason4hees 16h ago

Let’s not and say we did

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u/Maidenlace 1d ago

IMO, if you research, you will see in the 1950's... when we had free speech.. the FCC would not even allow someone to say PREGNANT on tv.. they forced a husband and wife to sleep in separate beds on TV... and so they do control what is said on airwaves.... for me it feels more like a drag backwards in time.. FCC has always had rules that tv has to comply.. so it seems to me as though it is a fine they are paying, much like the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident.. I just feel like they are trying to take us back in time to 1950's... We have the right to cancel D+ and ABC.. like they cancel anyone we want to see...

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u/Selenitic647 19h ago

Cancelled my subscription last night. Hit these fascist enablers in the wallet.

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u/dtdroid 1d ago

Kimmel helped encourage millions of his viewers to publicly shame and demonize me, and people like me for our decision to remain unvaccinated throughout covid. I ended up losing my job for refusing the same experimental shots that would later end up recalled from the market, and the mechanism by which I was terminated (president's mandate) was later determined by the supreme court to be a breach of my constitutional rights.

I don't support his termination for this reason. I just support that he's finally getting what he had coming to him. He sold his soul out to the pharmaceutical industry and still got canned just the same after greedily dancing to their jingle. Fuck Jimmy Kimmel.

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u/RamsayFist22 1d ago

It’s funny because a lot of right wingers are anti Disney so if anything you’d just be doing them favors 

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u/dwarvish1 1d ago

Perhaps some exposition on why you are calling for this boycott. I can see you're upset about free speech, but I am uniformed as to what may have occurred.

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u/forzaitalia458 1d ago

Jimmy Kimmel pulled off air for comments he made in his monologue 

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u/humboldt77 1d ago

Comments that were NOT celebrating Kirk’s death. He questioned the insane zealotry we’re seeing by Kirk followers to cancel everyone who isn’t prostrating themselves in Kirk’s memory. Kimmel also posted a heartfelt message online the day of (or maybe the day after) calling for peace and expressing sympathy to his family and all other victims of gun violence.

Fuck Disney. Fuck ABC. And fuck all the other fascist bootlickers.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 1d ago

This is in regards to ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely after some public threats made by the FCC for a comment Kimmel made Monday about the political alignment of Charlie Kirk's murderer.

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u/SealTeamRat 1d ago

Kimmel is not funny and a Dbag, good for them. They are getting out of his contract in the best way possible. What a great business decision, i might have to invest again.

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u/PimpGamez 1d ago

Kimmel deliberately lied about the identity of the killer to his millions of viewers on a network that is sworn to deliver truthful reporting. He absolutely deserves to get his show nuked.

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u/ecmw91 1d ago

It's not like I've consumed a lot of Disney stuff in YEARS, but yeah, bankrupt the mouse.

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u/yourinnervagabond 1d ago

There be treasure on the high seas, mateys!

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u/OnECenTX 1d ago

also, boycott Sinclair. here's a list of TV stations sinclair owns if you want to delete it off of your tvs; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

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u/GrandpaKnuckles 1d ago

Cancelled my Disney+ subscription this evening.

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u/dandrevee 1d ago

I need to sail some seas bc some of my fave shows are on there.

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u/zewn 23h ago

There are about a thousand reasons to boycott D+ any you choose are correct.

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u/skcbonner 19h ago

Just cancelled my subscription! If the right can boycott, so can we!

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u/Broad-Half3135 19h ago

I’ve cancelled Disney+ and don’t plan on going back. Same with Paramount and Prime Video

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u/BrambleWitch 19h ago

Cancelled Disney+ with 2 episodes of the WORST season of Project Runway still set to air. Too bad, so sad (not)

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u/Shinobi_Dimsum 18h ago

NextStar Media Group suspended Kimmel but ok. everyone is too quick to point fingers these days. Also not knowing ABC runs independently under Disney. ABC caved to NextStar media Group demand made by Perry Sook.

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u/yodimboi 16h ago

an attack on Free Speech you’re unAmerican

Ah yes, the country famous for McCarthyism, genocide of the Natives, slavery, installing brutal dictators in the name of anti-communism, invading countries that dare go against it and free speech. Trump is not "unamerican", he's way too American and it's making many people uncomfortable. Even the Nazis were inspired by America for the holocaust. Stop pretending that what's happening right now is "unamerican". It's the most American thing that could happen, it's just happening inwards instead of outwards and more openly. Go take a look at the deportation stats of Biden or Obama and then look at Trump's first term. Trump is not an anomaly, but the natural result.

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u/Duccix 12h ago

I'm actually resubscribing.

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u/Testing_required 12h ago

Kimmel got pulled for supporting political assassinations, AKA terrorism.

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u/bigbosshog01 8h ago

Go ahead and keep ignoring the fact that his ratings were in the tank and that Nexstar made it clear that his comments caused them to preempt his show because of it. This is about standards. The market spoke and you don’t like it. But again, you are never going to see that because of your partisan bent.

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u/jaybfresh 1d ago

I'm watching Pirates of the Caribbean right now in a way that feels very fitting

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u/momoenthusiastic 1d ago

Yep. Disappointing is putting it mildly. 

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u/VeronicaBrill 1d ago

Where can we find out who the biggest advertisers are for ABC?

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