Disney was probably inundated with demands from other on air talent to reinstate the employee. They then made the calculated judgment that maintaining good employee relations was on balance better served by putting the employee back on the assembly line. This is all usual and standard business. Anyone on here that has ever worked a job has contract that says what they can and cannot do while in the employ of the company.
So now we know the reality. An employer, Disney, felt an employee, Kimmel, was damaging their business, let's not forget the point of an employee is to make money for their employer, and as a result took corrective action with the employee. Who was not fired. If a waiter at a restaurant was offending the customers, he would have been fired. Kimmel was treated very kindly and will continue to receive his paycheck. Looks like the wailing about free speech missed the mark
A little late on this story, it all happened last year and the years before. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon, when the govt floods the world with free money, the price of goods goes up.
Just look at the title.. "Solar executives warn..". Of course they do, their business model is government subsidy. I live in a blue state that has decided to bet on renewables and our electricity rates are skyrocketing. If solar was viable, it would not require forcing tax payers to fund these businesses.
Isn't this the group that had the not that monitored chats and would warn on any use of language that was insufficiently adherent to the woke paradigm?
Absolutely correct. The only reason to resists transparency and accountability is if you have something to hide. The american public is smart enough to know that you don't make a $200,000 per year salary and amass a wealth of multi millions. It was a fun ride for the inside while it lasted, its time to move on now.
I believe we are at the end of the line for the concept of "fact checking". The statement "These Wildfires are Caused by California’s Mismanagement of Forest Lands" is qualitative, there is no true or false to that. Gov Newsom may believe they did a wonderful job, others may disagree. But certainly when one side says and any dissenting view is a "LIE" that is a good marker that they are trying to shut down open discussion because they have something to hide. Not a good look in the middle of a crisis to be shutting down dialog. Let the voters decide if the current government did a good job or mismanaged, but to say that disagreement with current power structures is a LIE does not work anymore.
For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Been that way since telephones and railroads. People should understand history, this is not a new challenge and the solutions are already on the books.
As a common carrier they should not be allowed to discriminate. Like railroads cannot discriminate against traffic they do not like, and restaurants and hotels cannot discriminate. As a society we decided long ago that if you hold yourself out to the public you cannot discriminate
The population density has shown that this is a use less endeavor, and post COVID this makes little sense. We should be discouraging any commute for work. The idea of funneling people from the suburbs into the city daily is an idea whose time has past. Spend the money to upgrade internet infra and start deconstructing the cities. There should be an immense tax on any commuting into a center city to massively discourage that wasteful and environmentally harmful activity
You could replace Bitcoin with USD and say the same thing. Any currency has value because those in power insist on taxes being paid in that currency, otherwise it is just what people believe it to be. Read "When Money Dies", excellent book about how a government can ruin the trust that is the basis of fiat.
In theory yes. It's just a bit too far to commute. and there are lot of industries that think "to be a real player in this industry we HAVE to be located in NYC (or DC)". But there is no industry that thinks that of Philly. So it ends up with just small regional versions of most industries. Very unfortunate given that the housing prices are far lower than NY or DC area.
They told me the internet world was going to end if we didn't subsidize Google, Facebook and other Big Tech companies with Net Neutrality.. yet nothing happened. So once the proponents acknowledge they were wrong we can discuss.
As a good rule of thumb, any government regulation that is supported by Google, Facebook, Netflix and other monopoly tech... is bad for you the individual.
Correct. Hate speech means speech you do not like because it disagrees with your biases and viewpoints. For some the use of speech to coordinate a summer of violent riots is hate speech, for others it is a rally cry of the oppressed.
Using the violence of the state to restrict freedom of speech and thought is never done by people on the right side of history.
There is a framework for this that was created over 100 years ago when the same problem happened with railroads. They did they same thing and used their monopoly power to discriminate on who could ship goods by rail. Society said that was wrong and we have the idea of a common carrier that must treat all customers the same.
We should declare all app stores to be the same, common carries that may not discriminate. Bottom line, end of story. No BS about "hate speech" or other terms that are made up to make censorship sound more palatable.