As millions tune in to hyperpartisan face-offs on YouTube or TikTok, can the left find its own Charlie Kirk?
Category: Freedom of Speech and Expression
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Disney+ Cancellations Jump After Kimmel Suspension
Roughly three million Americans canceled the streaming service in the month that it temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show. About 4.1 million people canceled Disney-owned Hulu.
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OpenAI Blocks Videos of Martin Luther King Jr. After Racist Depictions
People have used its Sora video app to create vulgar and sometimes racist depictions of the civil rights leader.
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Indiana University Fires Adviser to Student Newspaper and Bars Print Publication
The administration at Indiana University Bloomington fired the adviser to the paper and barred the publication from putting out a print edition.
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The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years
The N.B.A, returns to China this week, after a hiatus sparked by a controversial 2019 tweet. In Macau, New York Times business reporter Tania Ganguli reveals the behind-the-scenes stakeholders who orchestrated the league’s return.
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Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.
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Jane Fonda Revives Her Father’s McCarthy-Era Free Speech Group
The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s.
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What to Expect on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
Jimmy Kimmel will break his silence on Tuesday night on the controversy that temporarily sidelined his late-night show.
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What Will Jimmy Kimmel Say Tonight?
The return of the late-night host’s show raises questions about how the Trump administration, TV affiliate owners and viewers might react.
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‘The View’ Hosts Criticize Trump Administration Over Kimmel
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has suggested that the daytime talk show should could also come under government scrutiny.
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night
The network’s removal of Mr. Kimmel’s show last week almost immediately morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America.