In the United States, the threats against free speech continue, the latest example was the indefinite cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel's Late Night Show. Our correspondent Jorge Gestoso has more details on the subject. teleSUR
00:00Now we go to the United States. The threats against free speech continue.
00:04The latest example was the indefinite consolation of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show.
00:09Our correspondent Jorge Gestoso has more details on the subject.
00:15Thank you. Here in Washington and all over the country,
00:19one subject was the main issue of discussion and controversy.
00:24We're talking freedom of expression granted by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and possible censorship.
00:32Why? Because a very, very popular television show, the one of Jimmy Kimmel, every night on ABC,
00:41suddenly has been cancelled after what it seems to be the reason it was not officially admitted that was the reason,
00:49a joke made by Jimmy Kimmel who said that the assassin of Charlie Kirk was a mega member.
00:58Mega makes America great again means the movement of Donald Trump.
01:03So that was meaning that one of themselves was killing another member of MAGA that was this activist Charlie Kirk.
01:12And at that point, everybody from the right and everybody from the MAGA movement go around the country to start to denounce what they say that is discrimination,
01:27misinformation, wrongly use of the mass media.
01:32What they say that is the attack by the president of the United States who say that 97% of the times that have been talked about him is negative.
01:44And he brought the possibility, he mentioned the possibility that because of all those incidents that is repeated lately,
01:52the licenses of the television networks could be revoked.
01:57And that exactly was creating the flurry about all the colleagues of Jimmy Kimmel,
02:03such as legends as David Letterman or Jay Leno or even Stephen Colbert that yesterday,
02:09he said that this is pure censorship put in the middle of the debate what is going on in terms of polarization in the United States.
02:19And the bottom line is that for many analysts,
02:23they believe that is the very dangerous episode that they create the possibility of self-censorship
02:32for fear that the government of Donald Trump could put to impose sanctions on even consequences economically
02:41and in terms of personnel and employment very, very dangerous.
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