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This is a false equivalency, unfortunately. We can discuss all we like about cancel-culture-on-the-left, but it misses the glaring difference:

The left used their speech to encourage consequences for those whose speech they didn’t like.

The right is now using the power of the government to silence speech they don’t like.

That is a massive and important difference, and it is blindingly obvious.

I don’t know if the means matter much - the outcomes are the same. One side could rely on their activist group networks to pressure decision makers and the other side is using their corporate connections to do the same.

The government isn’t doing anything directly in either case. End of day the network made this choice.

> The government isn’t doing anything directly in either case. End of day the network made this choice.

The kindest read here is that you are unaware of the FCC’s comments on the matter.

Unfortunately, the government actually did do something - they put their thumb on the scale and implied severe consequences if the network did not follow through.

This is a massive difference. It is extremely chilling.

And I’ll say if it is overreach, which it well could be, it too will be punished in due time. Previous regimes largess is currently being punished. Endless cycle.

In death, Mr. Kirk has become more useful than he was in life. There’s so much more coverage of him compared to, say, routine Russian drone incursions over NATO states. And I haven’t heard anyone actually quote him; not a word of his supposed wisdom. But, this occasion gets to be scribbled into the blank for “________ takes down that Jimmy Kimmel”.

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