Free Speech, Jimmy Kimmel, and the FCC
What does “free speech” really mean—and what doesn’t it mean? Today, Todd takes a hard look at Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension after ABC affiliates refused to air his show following his grotesque comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The media wants you to believe this is censorship, but Todd unpacks the truth: free speech is about protection from government interference, not immunity from accountability in the workplace or public square.
We walk through the history of broadcast licenses, why the FCC plays a role in regulating limited airwaves, and how that differs from the unlimited nature of the internet. Todd explains why affiliates have the right to reject Kimmel’s program, why ABC can suspend him, and why none of this violates the First Amendment. Along the way, he contrasts real accountability with cancel culture, highlighting the difference between enforcing clear rules and simply silencing viewpoints.
Todd also connects these issues to broader battles in media, culture, and the marketplace—from corporate bias to social media censorship to the importance of supporting businesses that share your values. As always, he calls out hypocrisy, exposes propaganda, and reminds listeners that conservatives must not be intimidated into silence.
Don’t miss this bold, unapologetic episode on the fight for truth, liberty, and decency in America.
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📰 Stack Links
Jimmy Kimmel suspended after affiliates refuse to air show – Fox News
FCC commissioner warns ABC over Jimmy Kimmel remarks – Washington Examiner
What the First Amendment really protects – Heritage Foundation
Cancel culture vs. accountability explained – The Federalist
Charlie Kirk assassination coverage and fallout – The Daily Wire
Stephen Colbert and free speech controversies – Hollywood Reporter
📝 Transcript: Free Speech, Jimmy Kimmel, and the FCC
The Todd Huff Show – September 18, 2025
Todd: Well, that is right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's home for conservative, not bitter, talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. It's my pleasure. To be here today. Thank you so much for joining us.
Todd: I should tell you off the top that this will be our last day here in studio. This. Well, this week. I know. We just have tomorrow Friday, so we'll be out Friday. And we will be out through next Thursday.
Todd: I will be returning here behind the microphone on Friday. Two things about that. Number one, we have a lineup of special guests. You're in good hands now. They've got big, big. Shoes to fill. We all know that. So they're probably going to come up a little bit short, but. That's nothing about them. It's about the host of this program. I'm kidding, my friends. Micah Clark will be joining us tomorrow. He's the executive director for. The American Family association. Here in Indiana, we have Chris Dunham, all these folks, friends of mine. Chris Dunham, one of the folks that I've known the longest was trying to think about that the other day. I've known Chris for probably. Gee, probably close to 20 years. Met him through my brother. Chris is. I don't know how to define Chris. He's. An author. He's a christian apologist. He's a corporate trainer. He's done a lot. He was Zig Ziggler's protege. He'll. Be here on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Gary Varvel. Gary Varvel has become a friend of mine. He's a syndicated cartoonist.
Todd: he's got his newsletter GaryVarvel.com he'll be with us on wednesday and then my friend john crane who's now venturing into he was a senator here in the state of indiana he's now venturing into well he's done leadership things in the past but he's really dedicating his time to some leadership activities. Public speaker. He was an interim pastor. At my church years ago, and John grew up here, around me. We weren't friends. He went to a different school, but close to this area, so that's who's going. To be here next week. Well, tomorrow and then into next week.
Todd: So I won't be back until Friday. Number one. Number two, the newsletter still goes out. So if you've not subscribed to the newsletter and you still want to hear from me, which, I mean, why wouldn't you go to ToddHuffShow.com truth to sign up for that. You'll get issues even when I'm not here. Every weekday. Again, ToddHuffShow.com. So those are the housekeeping tips and bit. Bits of information I'm going through here off the top of the program today. I want to talk about jimmy kimmel. I want to talk about free speech today. I got a lot to get to, so we got to hit the ground running here before I do that. Though. My friends. Let me ask you something. Would you rather. When I was a kid, my friend. J dot used to play this game. Would you rather. And he would give me two. Usually ridiculous. Things to choose from. But would you rather. Today. Take two salty soft gels a day or spend hours in your doctor's office talking. About your cholesterol. I know what I would pick, and that's why I take salty every day. I think that is something you should look at as well. It's a natural supplement. It takes care of your heart health. It doesn't mean. Listen, I want you to hear me. Say this.
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Todd: So you may have seen Jimmy Kimmel. Is effectively. What? Been fired, I guess. Jimmy kimmel. ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel live after affiliates. And I want to talk a little bit about this. Because. It's kind of in a different way, the business that I'm in.
Todd: His affiliate station, some of them that were owned by. A group. They refused to carry his show because of comments he made. Because of comments he made about Charlie. Kirk in the wake of his assassination, in the wake of his death, and I'll play. Those here. Momentarily, but. I just want to. Well, forgot to queue that up. Number one. Number two. I want to make, want to make sure that. I get to it once I kind of give the lay of the land here, okay. So that's what's happened.
Todd: Now the argument, the backlash is about free speech. And, of course, people in the media. Listen, I have no problems with the questions. I have no problems with the conversation, but we're going to talk about.
Todd: What free speech means and what it doesn't. We're going to talk about the differences between. Cancel culture and the consequences of what you say. You can't avoid that. 's where we're headed today also the fcc. Chair, Brandon Carr was on a program. Where he made comments that the FCC. Might come in and do other things potentially. Even take away licenses. So we'll talk about all this. So I'll start by. Telling you.
Todd: The way this works is. You have. The main network, say NBC or in this case, abc. And they have affiliate stations, so you have the network. And what they do is they provide content to their affiliate stations. So affiliate station here for ABC and Indianapolis. I still believe. Well, they've changed some things recently, but I believe it's. Wrtv. Channel six in Indianapolis. It's the ABC. Affiliate unless they flip that. Oz, do they flip that? Do you know it used to be it? Doesn't matter. And I'm not trying to say it incorrectly, but it used to. Be. I don't really. Watch. We have a streaming service, and I don't honestly know half the time what channel I'm on.
Todd: But back in the day, you got to think. So you go back to the early days. Of. Communications and there were broadcast signals. There's a limited number of broadcast signals that. You can get the frequencies interfere. You got to have a certain amount of power to deliver the signal and for people to receive it and to play the content. But back in the day, in the early days of television and early days of radio.
Todd: The government said, look, these airwaves, these frequencies are publicly owned, but. You can apply to get a license to have that be your signal. Where you broadcast on that signal. And so since it was a limited thing, right, you compare that to the Internet. You compare that. To the Internet. The Internet's unlimited, right? You might get lost in a sea of competitors. On the Internet. You might not be able to garner the same amount of attention. You might not know how to navigate it. You might not be good at SEO. Whatever. All these factors. But everybody. You can put websites up all day, you're not going to run out, not going to run out of space.
Todd: They're building massive data centers around the country and everything else. For all the information that's out there and. There's no limit, really. To the number of websites or things that can be online. There are limit to the number of signals that are out there. From a practical perspective, you can't have things interfering and all that. So they had to. Say. Here, you can have this frequency. Here's some stipulations. We have to have some requirements, and the FCC does have some requirements. They're also trying to balance that with giving. These networks continue to have the right to free speech, but.
Todd: There are also stipulations and regulations since not everybody, some people are just limited. And you can say limited by money and capital. And just the ability to do that. But you're also limited. Even if you had the tower. You can't get a signal because these things. They all have licensees? Pretty much. So that's how they limited these. So then you've got the networks. ABC, NBC, CBS, those are the big three back in the day, and they would create the content. They would have things like national news broadcasters.
Todd: This is. Some of. The all time big names in media and that sort of thing, and they would also create content. That they could send out some syndicated content, that they could go out to the affiliates so the affiliates are the local stations. It's not unlike what we do. It's not unlike. What we do. We produce this show here on the conservative, not bitter, network, the. Todd Huff show and then. We basically provide that a variety of ways over the satellite. The Wegner satellite or. Sometimes you can send file. There's several ways to do this, but the bottom line is you've got local stations that then carry that content.
Todd: It's similar. It's similar. And so those local stations. Sometimes are. It's not common, but sometimes there's one station owned by maybe one. Individual or a family or a small group, a small group of investors or whatever. Sometimes they begin to buy these stations. I mean, the landscape has changed so much with podcasting and streaming and. Television and all.
Todd: These developments. It's just a different game. But oftentimes. They'll own affiliates, sometimes across the country, sometimes in a particular region. Sometimes just spattered about based upon where they could find a good deal or a market that they wanted or whatever. So you've got. This group of affiliates. And they said, after hearing Jimmy Kimmel's remarks about. In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, they said, we don't want to play. That we don't want this show anymore. We're refusing to air his show, so. Let's pause there and let's play.
Todd: Let's play just a bit of the sound bite of what Jimmy Kimmel said. That upset people so much. And I'm also going to read for you a little bit. Of the transcript of other things that he said. But here's Jimmy Kimmel. This is what upset these affiliates. This is what upset other people. And before I play this, remember the full context here, depending upon when you, if you listen to this show, into the future.
Todd: You might forget or you might not know. The context of everything else going on as I speak to you now. There are literally thousands of people who have taken to the Internet to celebrate the death, the assassination. Of Charlie Kirk.
Todd: There have been students on campuses. I saw one on video yesterday. Who was mocking Charlie Kirk's? Death, physically reenacting what? Charlie Kirk. What happened to Charlie Kirk's body after the bullet struck him in a crowd, I believe.
Todd: He had gotten expelled from school or kicked out of school at whatever university he was at. This is all over the place. I mean, people cheering. Some of these folks are straight out. They may all be demonic, but some of these folks, there's no doubt. I mean, they're. Laughing with glee. They look like a character, an evil character from a movie. Some of these folks. They looked straight, straight out of the pits of hell sort of stuff. And so that's. What? 's going on here, and that's. I guess the lay of the land, if you will.
Todd: So on top of all of that going, on. On top of all that going on, Top of the reluctance of some to say, Something. Just. Just don't say something. Atrocious about Charlie Kirk. Just don't say something that. Is. Vile and vulgar about his death. They can't help themselves. This is what is going on. This is the context of this. So then along comes Jimmy Kimmel, who makes these comments. Listen, we hit some new lows. Over the weekend with the MAGA gank desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can. To score political points from it. Okay. So. That's the gist of it, right?
Todd: First of all, He's calling for. He's claiming that Maga doesn't want to admit. That the shooter was one of them. One of us. I went through this yesterday. This never made sense from day one. And by the way, as I've said, even if it did, Even if he was Maga, which pretty clearly the guy's not. He had. A negative, I guess. Tone negative things to say about his father. You could just from the text. Messages. He said his dad had become full blown maga or something to that extent. It's pretty obvious that this guy is not sympathetic to magga. This guy. Has adopted a leftist ideology in a worldview. And that in a listen, as I've shared before. That may mean a lot. That may mean everything, but there are crazy people, people that do heinous things. In any group of people.
Todd: The question is, and I go back to this, the question is, are the actions the evil that is being taken or the. The evil that's being committed. Are those things? Due to are fed by, fueled by the ideology or. Are they just examples of people within a group carrying out some sort of evil within their own? Hearts, and you have to look at the bigger picture. And I would say the radical left, I'm very careful with my words here. I don't mean every democrat. I don't. Mean every liberal. In fact, I have an olive branch to extend to you today, my friends. I'm not here. To be at odds with you. I mean, yes, we can fight about other political issues, but this. Is about the survival of our nation. This is about restoring goodness and decency to this country. Again, not to promote abject evil. I encourage you to stand with me and. Fully reject this stuff. These people have to be defeated politically. they can't be allowed to continue to steamroll the rest of us to try to intimidate they want to intimidate me but some people they do intimidate.
Todd: We've got to stop that from happening because, see, what's interesting is they're claiming everyone else is the fascist. They are the fascists. They are the ones who are. Justifying the use of violence, the use of firearms, high powered rifles, to kill their political opponents. They are by definition. The fascists, my friends. And so this is what Kimmel said, the affiliate stations, of course, I said a certain group. I can't think of the name of that group right now. Nextar, I think. They said, we're not going to carry it. So then ABC basically said, We're going to. Technically, what they said is they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Here's some more of the quote. This is what I played for you. We hit some new lows, he said over the weekend with the MagA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can. To score political points from it.
Todd: Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief. He's talking about Trump here, played a soundbite of Trump now Trump was asked about Charlie Kirk. Believe he was outside the Rose Garden. He was on the White House grounds and. I don't know that he even answered the question on the clip that I saw was talking about? The ballroom that they were building and so forth. And so Kimmel says this. Yes, talking about Trump, he's at the four stage of grief construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four year old mourns a goldfish, okay?
Todd: I don't even like to say these words. So that's what initiated all this. That's what caused all of this. And so people are crying that this is a violation of free speech. Of course, this comes not too far on the heels of Stephen Cobert again, who they think, again, if you get in the mind of the leftist. They believe that they are being targeted for saying things that are anti Trump, which is remarkable to me because they've said these things. Without any repercussion, even things that were defamatory against the president? Well, some of them have had to pay the price. But they've been talking poorly about this guy for a decade. And now. They're acting like they're being silenced because they oppose. Trump, by the way. This is not what it would look like if you were trying to silence. Your media adversaries. You realize how many negative. Sources of media are out there for Trump. This is one network. And by the way, the cable news networks don't have the same FCC requirements because they're going over cable news.
Todd: They're not competing for that limited, those limited number of broadcast signals. And so it's, different. It's different for Ms. Well, MSNBC, CNN, it's different. Fox News it's different for those folks than for CBS, NBC, ABC. They're supposed to be providing a community service, and there's requirements within the FCC. That. Will get to my friends here. In due course, but here's. The real rub. The real rub to determine if something is a violation of free speech. If someone is taking away your free speech. It must be taken away by the government.
Todd: It must be taken away by the government now, initially, until a ruling, until the 14th Amendment, actually. Was ratified. The First Amendment really, in the early days, was interpreted to only be the federal government cannot interfere. With your freedom of speech. That didn't mean that. Your employer couldn't. There could be turn, I mean. That's. A free contract or contractual employment agreement, whichever you have that you enter into. With your employer, whether you're a contractor, whether your employee, you enter into that willingly. He or she, whoever your employer is, does not have to accept all types of behavior. They can make requirements.
Todd: Sometimes businesses, companies do this and people think that is too much. I don't want to work there. They're trying to control. My life. Other times because social media is so prevalent today, they just have rules. Don't be out there cheering the death of a person. Don't be out there applauding when someone gets assassinated in front of 3000 people. And for the whole world to see on the Internet. Don't be cheering that. Don't. Be acting like that is a good thing when he's just openly having conversation, welcoming those with opposing viewpoints to come and share what they think, to question him and everything else. Don't cheer that stuff on. That's garbage. That's pure evil. We don't want to be associated with that. And by the way, companies are free to do that. And so that's what's happening now.
Todd: You have a lot of fallout because people said, oh, I'm just exercising my freedom of speech. Well, the government didn't stop. You. The government's not stopped any of this. From happening. Nor should they. Nor should they. And it is a remarkable thing to me as someone who's, I guess, followed this my whole life. Sometimes. When you do something every day, whatever it is that you do. Whatever career that you have, maybe you're retired. Whatever you've done, you do it. For so long. And sometimes. It's hard to relate to someone who didn't do it. You sometimes forget what you've learned.
Todd: And. To me. I'm amazed that people don't understand what the First Amendment is. The First Amendment does not prevent. An employer. From. Basically giving you consequences that say you can't work here if you use speech in such a way that they find offensive. I don't understand. Why people don't understand the difference between having the freedom to be able to do something. Legally. And then also understanding that there are some things I just should not do even though I can. Do them legally, so got to pause that.
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Todd: Welcome back, my friends. Lots and lots of stuff to get to today. I got to keep it. Moving again. I'll be out starting tomorrow through Thursday. Got some good guest hosts filling in. Though, so you'll be in good hands. But they've got some big, big shoes. To fill. I've shared with you earlier, friends. I want to. Remind you FreedomMarketplace.net. You can go to freedom marketplace net and find. A list listings of conservative businesses who are pushing in the same direction you are. Look, we fight this battle, this battle that we're facing against.
Todd: The radical left, the extremist rabid. evil promoting radical left we have this battle on multiple fronts in the government yes elections we got it in the workplace we've got it in academia we've got it in schools we've got it with some teachers we've got it with some school board some administrators we've got it with some folks in the quote unquote sci. Scientific community. I say quote unquote, because, listen. They are acting many times as simply as liberal. I shouldn't say liberal. They act as leftist mouthpieces, pushing out propaganda and so forth.
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Todd: A podcast the other day. And. He said, they talking about ABC, who, of course, is responsible for. Jimmy Kimmel they have a license granted by us at the FCC, and with that or that comes with it. An obligation to operate in the public interest. He then said, we can do this the easy way or we can do this. The hard way. Take action. Or Kimmel. There's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. That's what he has said, according to quotes. Cited at fox news. So as I shared before, as I shared before, The affiliates can refuse to air the program. That's not a violation of the First Amendment. For those who need me to say that. Now, depending upon the contracts, which may or may not be the case, if anything, it could be. A violation of the contract. Or maybe it's not, but the affiliates have a direct relationship. With the network, and if the affiliates decide they don't want to air it, that's. Not a violation of Jimmy.
Todd: Kimmel speech or abc speech? Now, as I've said, and as most of you know, but I have to say this. Because people out there don't know. The first Amendment. Prevents, Congress prevents the federal government from silencing you. From saying we don't want to be associated with this garbage and this dribble. This guy is being very disrespectful and being grotesque in his assessment. Of the murder and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or whatever the issue is, you have a right. To say we don't want to be associated with that. So there are rules.
Todd: With the FCC. These are eight year term licenses. Eight year terms, I should say. You got to file with the FCC. They got to review compliance and all this sort of stuff. The public interest service. The public interest standards is this. Stations must serve the public interest, convenience and necessity. That includes local news, issues. Education and information for kids, that sort of stuff. There are other rules that come with having a broadcast license. Obscenity is banned at all. Times. That's not protected speech, by the way.
Todd: Indecency and profanity is restricted. Especially in the daytime hours. You get into the nighttime hours, late night. It's a little. Bit different, but there are regulations for that when it comes to political broadcasting obligations. The FCC requires that these networks provide reasonable access for federal candidates. Equal opportunities rules in certain cases so that the station isn't just promoting one candidate over another. There's a hoax or false emergency rule that prohibits. Networks from knowingly broadcasting false information about a crime or catastrophe likely to cause substantial public harm. Boy, there's things that pop into my head when I think about some reporting that's. Been done in recent years, as it may pertain to that.
Todd: Enforcement and due process. Basically, the way that it works is a complaint is filed. There's an enforcement bureau investigation. They can find networks, they can take other actions. At some point they can deny your license. So claiming or threatening to take away a license is technically something that they can do, but they can do it on very, they, the FCC can do it on very limited grounds. And what they cannot do is. To. bar certain viewpoints banning certain viewpoints punishing speech simply for being controversial Or offensive. So that's kind of a rundown of. What the fcc? What their role is, what they can do, obviously.
Todd: You get to some point, you got to be an attorney and you got to look at. A particular violation or alleged violation, and then that's got to play out in the system. Right? I mean, there's a lot of ways that this could go, but that's. The structure. That's the structure of this. But the FCC. In theory, could look at taking the licenses of these networks, which Trump has hinted at before, which upsets some people. Which I understand. In one sense, you don't want the government threatening. To do something that looks like silencing speech of people who are standing in your opposition.
Todd: Likewise. I understand that. Organizations and companies if they ceased, if they violate. The rules of the agreement. They violate the FCC rules. Then. At some point those have to be enforced, or what is the point of having them? So I don't know. The FCC has not been called in here. I would prefer that. To not be the case. I'm not arguing for that. I'm just trying to give perspective. That's. What I try to do. If you can't argue, at least explain the other side's. Perspective. Unless it's the radical left who've literally lost their minds and they have no. Interest in truth. But when sometimes they're just general disagreements. We know there's a line in there somewhere that says the government shouldn't be silencing the media, that's not what I want at all. I also know that if there's requirements and rules and regulations that are legitimate here and.
Todd: By the way, these are legitimate because. Again. It's limited. It's not like the Internet. There's a limited number. Of broadcast signals, and there are rules to be able to get those if they're not. Following those rules. If they are being, if they're engaging in propaganda, which candidly, candidly. I think there's lots of examples out there of where the mainstream media. Which may, at times include network news. I mean, cable news is again different. But I think that there's examples of where sometimes there's just flat out lies. That have been reported. By media outlets and where this may have legitimately or may legitimately be an issue.
Todd: So that's what's going on with that? we're not in that realm yet but it's been mentioned it's been threatened but that's not what's happened i've shared with you what has happened so how does this differ how does this differ from cancel culture how does accountability. Differ from cancel culture? Well, cancel culture is this movement that says if someone says anything with which I disagree. I want to take them out. I want to silence them. I want them to pay the price. Accountability is when there are rules and you violate the rules and. You're given due process. Whatever that looks like, right? And due process can vary depending upon. If it's in a situation with your company. Right. The due process that my company is.
Todd: They can review what happened, and then they can make a determination as to whether or not something happens, I get terminated, I get written up, whatever. And, of course, if there's something. More that involves the legal side of things. That, of course, is a different process. Altogether. But accountability isn't just trying to silence people, and that's what cancel culture. Is cancel. Culture is they don't want to have the fight. They say, oh, you're, on the other side. Let's get all of the people in our group to not buy from you and to punish you. Accountability says man. If you're going to do things that are completely. You have the right to say them, but. We also understand that these things are reprehensible and that no one should use their freedom to engage in these sorts of things. Society can say. That's not what we want. We don't want people working for us like that.
Todd: I've had a little bit of a hesitation here again. I've seen people who have gotten folks fired for these things that they've said. It's grotesque. And some of these kids have been expelled from school, from colleges, and I'm not against that. There's a part of me that's like, man, You're really harming your own life here. You've been given ample opportunity. To just shut up to. Quit defacing memorials and that sort of stuff. To quit acting. Like a fool, acting like. You're demonic in some cases. I think these folks may be demonic just because you can. Doesn't mean you should. And just because you can doesn't mean. There are not consequences. And that's what we're dealing with here. That's what we're dealing with here. The chickens are coming home to roost. Now, I've. Got to take a time out, my friend. Sit tight. Back here in just a minute.
Todd: Welcome back, my friend. Third and final segment. Again. I'll be out next week. Well, actually tomorrow and then next week again, we've got guest hosts coming in as I've shared and you can always stay in contact. The newsletter. The Daily Truth newsletter will still go out every day next week if you want to get that content, just go to the website ToddHuffShow.com/truth sign up to get that free. Newsletter I've enjoyed. We've really gotten some good feedback and I've enjoyed sharing. This kind of new and improved newsletter anyway, you can get that in our absence. All right, so. We talked about cancel culture. We talked about accountability. We're talking here about free speech. It's government. Who is the ones that can't limit free speech. They can't. Tell you not to say something. That's why we want to pick up that pickup. I should say.
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Todd: All right? So want to get as much of this in as we can? Because there's such a misunderstanding about free speech. We'll probably elaborate more on this. As we can with the time available, but I'll do my best to rush through this. Not rush, but as quickly as I can here.
Todd: So we talked about cancel culture versus accountability. And of course, there's more to it. We could probably do a whole segment or maybe. Even a whole show on that. But suffice it to say, cancel culture is really designed to intimidate, to silence people with different political beliefs, accountability. Is about holding people to account. For actions that people can decide. Just based upon. Their own understanding and morality. And what's good in a free society to say, There's consequences for that. You can't work here if you're celebrating the death of someone. If you don't like him, if you want to argue against his political beliefs. Fine. You've been able to work here the whole time that you've been. Here, right?
Todd: In many cases, they know. You're a leftist or a liberal, fine. But you can't be crossing this lines. Where? You're now impugning the reputation of the company that you're working for. So that is the difference. Of course, there's much more, but I have to get through. This quickly, and I want to touch on as many of these things as I can because there's been other examples. Of platforms, social media platforms that have tried to silence conservatives. And someone on the left will say, now, wait a minute. That's a private company. They should be able to do what they want. And I would say I agree with that. They should be able to do what they want. Those things should be written in their terms of service. They shouldn't be telling us that. They're a platform.
Todd: That's for free speech. when they selectively Manipulate their terms of service to basically silence the opinions of people with whom they disagree, I think that happened to me on a couple of social media platforms. I think that happened to me with YouTube. In 2021. Mostly over my. Listen, I just talked about January 6. In general, I didn't get into any of the conspiracy stuff or some of the weeds on that I just talked about perspective on it. And I got videos taken down. I got videos taken down, I believe, for Covid commentary. As well for simply asking questions.
Todd: Why do we insist that mask work when the evidence suggests that they don't? Why is there a forceful vaccination? All this stuff. Just asking those questions. I got silenced. I would argue that, in my opinion, they violated their terms of service. They could say, look, this is a platform. Where you can't say anything bad about. Covid and if they say that, then I can't do that. I agree to their terms and service. But if they say, hey, here's a platform for you to communicate, share your ideas and all that sort of stuff, and I share my idea and they say, well, we don't like that idea. We're going to silence you and you say, well, that's. Not what you told me the rules of the game were.
Todd: They're now in violation. If that happens, they're in violation of that contract that they had me signed, that we agreed in, that we entered into. That's why you'll. Find on some occasions. I mean, maybe not that specifically, but you'll find class action. Lawsuits. Sometimes against social media companies for violating their terms of service and so forth. So again. It's like a referee who changes the rules. We play basketball here in the huff out. We're Hoosiers.
Todd: We play soccer, too. Well, I say we. I don't. The kids do, but. You can't say. In the soccer match. I learned that. By the way, it's. Not soccer game. You can't say in a soccer match midway through. Hey, you can use your feet. Just your feet. Unless you're the goalie. The first half and then the. Second half. The kids running down the pitch. That's something else I've learned with the ball and you say, well, now they can just use their hands. Well, when did that. Rule change, right? We were playing soccer. There's specific things you can and cannot do. The rules can't be changed midstream. on top of that the last thing i can get to is There can be stipulations on First Amendment rights, freedom of speech rights.
Todd: If you're an employee. An employee of a government institution. So, for example, if you're an employee of a public school. I just looked at our school's social media policy. It talks about you cannot engage. In defaming other people in the school district or in the school community. And so some would say, well, That's a violation of my free speech. Well, you don't have to write to the same people to begin with. Anyway, you get the idea. I'm just out of time. I wanted to discuss that today, folks. I'll see you in a week. SDG.
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