“This is beyond McCarthyism,” the American Civil Liberties Union’s Democracy and Technology Division director Christopher Anders said in a statement. “Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke. The Trump administration’s actions, paired with ABC’s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms....the decision..."spurred an outcry and accusations that ABC had buckled to a censorship campaign targeting one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics.
(From a Washington Post article after ABC suspended the Jimmy Kimmel's show.)
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