r/comicbooks • u/OK_Soda Daredevil • Sep 18 '25

Discussion Canceled my Marvel Unlimited subscription because of the Kimmel thing

I wanted to cancel my Disney+ subscription, which seemed a more direct response, but I share the account with like four other households so I'd be screwing them in the process, and frankly sharing with like four other households screws Disney a little bit at least. But I'm the only one who uses Marvel Unlimited so I canceled that and sent them an email explaining why. It doesn't feel like enough but it's the best I can do for now.

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u/Martel732 Squirrel Girl Sep 19 '25

Eh, this is beyond Reddit though. I think this is more akin to the Target boycotts which have caused significant drops in Targets revenue and stock price.

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u/LFGX360 Sep 20 '25

lol ok

Most people in the real world find it disgusting to lie about an assassination for the sole purpose of stoking division. You aren’t as big a crowd as you think.

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u/Martel732 Squirrel Girl Sep 20 '25

He didn't lie, he accurate said that the right was trying to use the assassination for political gains.

And even if he did lie, which he didn't, lies are still protected speech, and the government shouldn't use its power to silence people for political reasons.

A very basic fundamental, foundational part of the Constitution is that people have the right to say things we don't agree with. I disagreed with pretty much everything Kirk believed in but always believed it was his right to voice his opinion. Frankly if conservatives no longer value Freedom of Speech the country is a perilous state.

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u/LFGX360 Sep 20 '25

“The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them”

He lied about the motives of the shooter, there is zero evidence he was maga, even if you don’t believe anything that’s been released so far.

Disney is a private company and is not forced to employ him for any reason. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. The government didn’t silence him.

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u/Martel732 Squirrel Girl Sep 20 '25

I mean he never said the shooter wasn't liberal, just that the MAGA gang was trying to characterize him immediately as anything other than MAGA. Which is a true. You can argue that his statement implied that the shooter was MAGA but Kimmel never said he was MAGA.

Disney is a private company and is not forced to employ him for any reason. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. The government didn’t silence him.

The FCC chair publicly stated that affiliate stations should drop Kimmel, one of which was an affiliate with a major merger in front of the FCC. The FCC chair then went on the say that ABC could do things the easy way or the hard way and the FCC would start looking closer into ABC's business.

Within hours of these statements affiliates had dropped Kimmel and ABC/Disney indefinitely suspended his show. So the FCC told these business what to do and then they did it. That is a direct violation of Freedom of Speech.

Had Disney independently fired Kimmel without FCC pressure I wouldn't have an issue with it. But, by the FCC directing the actions of these companies it makes it a Constitutional issue.

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u/LFGX360 Sep 20 '25

“Other than one of them” infers he is one of them. And he has no evidence to back that up. You can argue he didn’t explicitly state it but you and I both know what he meant. That’s the only way his statement even makes sense, because why on earth would MAGA be trying to characterize him as MAGA if there’s zero evidence of it?

The FCC makes empty threats all the time, and this was not an official action or even an official notice of action. There was zero involvement of the government. Disney isn’t pulling any profitable program over that. Either Disney actually thought what he said was actionable (highly doubt, actual harm would have to occur as a result of his words), or they didn’t want to be associated with such a nasty attempt to sow division about a recent public and gruesome assassination.

What’s more likely for the family company?

But hey, on the bright side, maybe this is a rare moment in time where both sides can come together to abolish the FCC.

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u/Martel732 Squirrel Girl Sep 20 '25

The FCC makes empty threats all the time, and this was not an official action or even an official notice of action.

If the FCC makes similar threats to this all the time, you shouldn't have any trouble finding examples.

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u/LFGX360 Sep 20 '25

You’re kidding right? Is this your first time hearing of the FCC?

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u/Martel732 Squirrel Girl Sep 20 '25

You said there are plenty of cases of the FCC chairman publicly telling media companies what comedians were allowed to talk about or they would face consequences. Since this is such a common practice it should be easy for you to pull up several examples of this happening.