The FCC Chairman specifically threatened to pull ABC broadcasting licenses if they didn't punish Kimmel. That isn't circumstantial at all. That's a smoking gun.
Did anyone ask the FCC chair to do this? Is it on record? Do you imagine the FCC chair to be cat that needs to be belled?
The FCC chair isn't the cat that needs to be belled.
Ballistics is a pseudoscience.
> Did anyone ask the FCC chair to do this?
Why did anyone have to ask him? He spoke in his capacity as a government official, and he has the power to do what he threatened. That's sufficient to say "the government is suppressing free speech".