After Jimmy-Kimmel-Aus: Obama accuses Trump “Cancel Culture”

Former US President Barack Obama has sharp criticism of the government of Donald Trump after the talks show of Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show. This “Cancel Culture” raised this to a “new and dangerous level” after complaining about it for a long time, the Democrat wrote on the platform X.

He accused his Republican successor to put media companies under pressure with regulatory threats, “if they do not silence or dismiss or dismiss their mouths” if they do not do unsolved reporters and commentators “.

Obama referred to an opinion contribution by US journalist Zack Beauchamp. The latter wrote that the Trump government instrumentalizes the supervisory powers of federal authorities in order to punish unpleasant votes. The Kimmel case is an escalation of previous measures and shows “how far the United States came on the way to authoritarianism in just eight months”.

After his controversial statements on the death of the right -wing activist Charlie Kirk, Kimmel’s show had “undetermined time” after his controversial statements. Trump welcomed the decision and demanded that further programs to be discontinued by unpleasant moderators.

Previously, the media company Nexstar, who radiates content from ABC with dozens of local channels, explained that he no longer want to send Kimmel’s show. Sinclair – another operator of local endors – followed up. On Friday, a memory of Kirk is scheduled to run on Kimmel’s broadcast. In addition, Sinclair demanded an apology from Kirk’s family and a donation to Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA.

It is explosive that Nexstar currently wants to take over further local transmitters and that the consent of the supervisory authority FCC needs. This has extensive powers in the United States as far as transmission reveals are concerned – but must not operate a censorship. Sinclair is also dependent on the benevolence of the authority.

Critics accuse FCC boss Brendan Carr of exerting pressure on the companies and demanding his dismissal. Carr had explained in a right podcast that companies had to act with a view to Kimmel – otherwise there was “additional work for the FCC”. “We can do that on the simple or hard tour,” he said.

In the United States, a violent argument has flared up on how to talk about Kirks’s death. The 31-year-old was shot in the state of Utah last week; Many of his extremely conservative positions consider critics to be racist and sexist. The Trump government has announced that they are acting against commentators who, in their view, are not appropriately expressed. Observers warn that this could lead to considerable restrictions on freedom of press and freedom of expression.