re: Kimmel's first amendment rights are not being violated.

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Project much?

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It's tiring listening to people blabber about "the first amendment gives you the freedom of speech but not the freedom from consequences." That statement is flat out wrong.

Many conservatives are arguing that the first amendment does not apply here. That's simply incorrect IF (and that's a big IF) the FCC is involved. The first amendment absolutely applies. That doesn't mean his first amendment rights were violated, but to blanketly state that the first amendment is inapplicable here is incorrect.

These people are more upset about Kimmel being cancelled than Charlie being killed.

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Please explain UpToPar

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Your OP suggests that there can only be a violation of the first amendment if Kimmel was arrested or suffered other "legal consequences" (whatever that means). That's simply not the case. It's possible that his firing (or having his show pulled off air) is a violation of his first amendment rights if the government is the one forcing the issue. Now, this gets very nuanced at this point, but to blanketly state that your first amendment rights cannot be violated unless you are arrested or suffer other legal consequences is simply false and demonstrates a lack of understanding of how the first amendment works.

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He was an employee of ABC, therefore he had a responsibility to not represent the nerwork in an unflattering manner.
This is about an employer and an employee job performance.

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AND... because ABC is a broadcaster and regulated by the FCC part of that performance and representation falls into the 'public interest' realm.

I say put the DOJ and FBI officials that were in direct contact with Twitter and Facebook (some housed in their offices) on the case.

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No its not. FCC did not fire Blackface Jimmy. His company did.

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This is short-sighted. If the FCC threatened to pull licenses then the FCC could absolutely be found to be suppressing political speech. It's the same thing with twitter. If the Biden administration is telling twitter to remove posts that criticize the administration or it will pull twitter down then the Biden administration is absolutely suppressing speech and the first amendment is applicable. We can't have it both ways. We can't complain about the twitter covid stuff and cheer on the Kimmel situation.

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If the FCC threatened to pull licenses then the FCC could absolutely be found to be suppressing political speech

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Pretty big "if" there. If your aunt had a dick she would be your uncle.

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Kimmel's first amendment rights are not being violated.

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Dumbasses on the left forget the first 5 words of the First Amendment.

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Why do all leftist's arguments get "very nuanced".

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I'm about as far from a leftist as you will find on this board.

It gets nuanced for the following reasons: If the FCC did indeed press the issue, now we have a government actor suppressing political speech and we need to move down the first amendment analysis. Did the speech violate an FCC rule or regulation? Is the speech protected or is it so abhorrent that we, as a society, have deemed it not protected by the first amendment? We get to some pretty slippery slopes once we start going down this path.

I hate Jimmy Kimmel as much as the next guy and if I was ABC I would have pulled him off air years ago. I just don't think the government should be dictating these things because the pendulum swings in the other direction as well.

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The FCC directly threatened abc to fire him.

Hate him all you want, that is overstepping by the government

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It was a dumb statement by the FCC chair, but I also don't see Disney/ABC bending the knee to this administration. The FCC couldn't just pull their broadcast license, there would have to be a hearing or something like that. You could say Disney doesn't want to spend the money on that fight but I would bet most major media companies would. If they win they set new longstanding precedent.