After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, many called it censorship. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast explains that it is censorship, but not the kind you might think.

Tension grew at ABC after Mr. Kimmel’s remarks about the Charlie Kirk killing angered conservatives.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposes a chilling new reality of the media bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, the New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues. “The only way for the media to resist is to band together to create a joint strategy to agree, for example, never to settle Trump’s lawsuits, to agree to defend one another, to provide individuals with institutional backing even if they weren’t working for a large institution when they were sued,” says Gessen.

After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, many called it censorship. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast explains that it is censorship, but not the kind you might think.

What’s happening to Jimmy Kimmel is what happened to my film “The Apprentice.”

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What’s happening to Jimmy Kimmel is what happened to my film “The Apprentice.”

The president’s suggestion that broadcasters should lose their licenses because of criticism of him indicated that his assault on critics’ language is driven in part by personal animus.

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A leaderless, connected and powerful Gen Z is rewriting Asia’s political playbook.

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A leaderless, connected and powerful Gen Z is rewriting Asia’s political playbook.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say.

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A group of House and Senate Democrats said they would introduce a measure that would bolster legal protections for people targeted by the government for speaking freely.

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ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.

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After the heartache and fury of the past week, it’s good to talk.

Fans and liberals expressed anger while conservatives hailed ABC’s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air after comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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Nepal’s recent social media ban, part of a global censorship trend, helped set off widespread unrest, forcing the government to reverse course.

The media tycoon, jailed since 2020, ran a now-defunct newspaper that was critical of the government.

Residents in a city in southwestern China protested what they saw as official indifference in the attack on a girl. Police repression and censorship fueled the outrage.