Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the statement says.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy**'s lawyers**, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
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Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
More like thoughtful conversations with the financial department…
Lol, and now we get to watch everybody buy their memberships again and the company will move forward like nothing ever happened.
I mean at the very least, hopefully they (and others Trump inevitably goes after) won’t be so willing to cave to authoritarian demands without a fight.
That’s kind of the way this all works. If even the people that could definitely afford to fight this in court signal they’re willing to just comply, then there’s no hope for everyone else.
I think John Oliver put it best when he said the response should have been, and should always be going forward “Fuck you, make me.”
Wait, so why wouldn’t they (and others trump goes after) be willing to cave without a fight?
We just watched them cave immediately without a fight, and then revert their decision after having “thoughtful conversations” behind the scenes that we’re not privy to.
We haven’t seen any victory, any pushback against this trampling of free speech, any principled disagreement. We’ve seen an immediate kowtowing.
I don’t know what those conversations behind the scenes entailed. I don’t know the future. But I’m going to predict the show that gets returned to air will be (even more) neutered. They won’t upset the administration again.
We’ll see what he does when he returned, but Trump is definitely pissy he didn’t get his way.
They demanded Kimmel be forced to apologize and I think pay money to the Charlie Kirk foundation. He did neither but for some reason his cancellation lasted less than a week.
They have the money and lawyers to fight this, they just didn’t want the hassle. Suddenly when it looked like it would be cutting into their profits they found the motivation to fight back.
We also haven’t heard from Carr as far as I know. This could still end up in court unless Carr is willing to just back down.
The monologue will be fire.
Indeed! But since it’s Kimmel we’ll have to wait and see if it’s funny.
Well, now let’s see what Jimmy Kimmel does. Will he come back toning down his rhetoric or will he start by thoroughly criticizing Kirk and Disney right as he gets back. I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this, he will always weigh the consequences of saying something before saying it (even subconsciously). And in that case, he is not worth watching.
I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this
He could intentionally avoid mentioning it while an elephant slowly wanders around behind him.
You could write for the show.
To be fair, I stole the idea from Top Gear’s final show.
Except I’m not resubscribing Disney.
That’s not how it works.
You haven’t felt the pain of freedom of my wallet.
If you don’t resubscribe, then you can’t unsubscribe the next time!
I really hope you’re trying to be funny.
It’s the only ring these companies understand.
If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.
The people have some power with their wallet by only if they use it.
You’re under no moral obligation to resubscribe at all, but if nobody does, they made a financial mistake by putting the show back on the air.
No the finanical mistake was the beginning. Eroding the goodwill people had for your company was the mistake. Rebuilding that will bring back the money.
You’re right of course.
If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.
Are you serious? If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want? I mean sure, but who gives a shit, they don’t make money because they don’t have any customers!
You don’t give them more money so you can take it away later, that’s idiotic. Spend your money on a decent VPN and torrent that shit, or read books instead of consuming so much corporate capitalist empire propaganda, your life will be better anyway.
If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want?
If they don’t have any people who give a shit as subscribers they can do what they want. They can go batshit insane alt right loony neo nazi with no further penalty, indeed, if they’re pretty much the only subscribers, there’s a financial benefit to go further magat and a loss to do otherwise. And your daughter well plead with you to get disney so she can watch pretty princesses and if you cave, then your son will grow up racist.
When fox pulls this shit they are fine, because sane people aren’t watching anyway. The only reason disney backed down is that it hurt them. If no one goes back, it can’t possibly hurt them a second time.
But absolutely you sold do what toy want with your money and if this was a permanent deal breaker for you, go ahead and permanently reject them. I’m OK with that, really, but I can’t pretend that you’ll have ongoing influence on their future decision making at the same time.
Financial mistake? Putting the show back on slows the bleeding, so they don’t lose even more subscribers. Seems like the wise choice (after the dumb choice that preceded it).
Key now is getting back to tying Trump to Epstein and Maxwell and call for the unaltered release of the Epstein files which was HIS OWN BROKEN PROMISE.
Keep pushing this message as it is one of the only messages that has induced a modicum of doubt in his core base, let alone swing-voters.
His approval-ratings have now fallen to Jimmy Carter levels, and we can get lower.
Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
They can die. I only pirate content from them, will never pay a dime.
That’s a bummer for them, Ive already canceled my account and ordered a nice NAS setup and Plex.
Plex bad. Jellyfin good.
Can it be used with FreeBSD?
It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.
There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.
You should be able to find instructions. I had it in a jail in my truenas before I went scale.
Where do you plan to source your media from now?
🏴☠️
This isn’t reddit, no one here is going to ban you for recommending a fucking website, just tell me what torrent site everyone is using so I can try and sign up with it during an open-season event and seed all day everyday
I have no idea what you’re talking about, we all pay full price.
Every instance have their own ToS, each of them with their own threshold of tolerance with having to deal with potential piracy inquiry on their server.
oh i bet you’re fun at parties. 🙄
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You know I’m generally helpful in guiding others to do things, sadly the way you responded to that comment I’ll have to take a pass. Why would you assume anything other than they’re going to pirate and haven’t gotten further than that yet.
Perhaps someone less petty can guide you or you can do what I did and figure it out using the internet.
That said I’ll give you two words to begin. Docker. Prowlarr.
I don’t care if you want to gatekeep your torrent sites for only people who conform to your specified kind of corporate nice-speak.
I refuse to allow a fucking billionaire, or an emotionally fragile person who doesn’t like reading naughty words on the internet to tell me how to talk.
I’m justifying my response to a useless emoji, because apparently down votes here are only a “I disagree” button rather than its intended purpose.
Man, some people will do anything rather than accept that their behavior can have justified social consequences.
I’m asking genuinely - are you doing alright? I can’t promise I can be helpful, but if you need someone to talk to I would be willing to try.
Fuck off pal. I can tell you if you spoke to me like this in person you get a smack in the face.
Basic civility isn’t corporate nice speak you silly cunt.
We are on lemmy.world. No, we cannot directly link to websites here that are “actively facilitating copyright infringement”. See the TOS.
lemmy.dbzer0.com has plenty of boards that can help you get started, and there is one specifically for open signups. qBittorent + a VPN + Jackett as a qBittorrent search plugin will facilitate most needs - you don’t need to be a member of private trackers to get most media.
Flying the pirate flag made perfect sense as a response. People are not going to bend over and spam links even if it were allowed; you didn’t specifically ask for help - don’t expect it.
Kimmel didn’t make any “Charlie Kirk comments”
He made fun of Trump for not giving a shit about Kirk’s death because he couldn’t get over his 8 year old equivalent impulse control to start bragging about the monstrosity they built on top of the Rose Garden at the White House.
Holy shit, so much this!
It’s honestly wild how far that narrative that he made some edgy comments has gone, to the point where it’s just being taken as fact in headlines now.
He barely even mentioned Kirk, and just stated that MAGA is trying really hard to claim the shooter was not one of them–didn’t even make any assertions about the actual shooter or their motives.
Anyone claiming he made disrespectful or inflammatory comments about Kirk is ignorant or a hypocrite.
As much as it still hurts when companies walk back their decisions, it’s really important as consumers that we also walk back our decision on supporting them. If we always stop supporting them regardless, they will continue to make decisions that don’t support the people. It’s important that we have power in these scenario. In the end, it’s better that Kimmel is back on the air, and that he can joke and criticize what’s happening. Let’s support them walking it back.
Just putting him back isn’t enough if he seems muzzled. We’ll see.
I think a partial return is fair. They shouldn’t pull this shit in the first place, and switching costs can be significant. If you’ve already gone to the trouble of setting up a Jellyfin server, then Disney has fucked around and found out.
My boycott will continue until Iger & the board are replaced. Bootlickers & cowards cannot be trusted.
The mouse bends the knee. Cyber bullying works! Don’t resubscribe.
All it took was the cat to bring a dead mouse
