Trump’s FCC commissioner opens investigation into Walt Disney Co. and ABC for diversity policies

[Kondor3]

I don’t think the government has any say beyond licensing and those companies only have to follow the laws and legal requirements of their licensure, not a bunch of questionably Constitutional EO’s. They are private companies, not federally funded.

We'll know soon enough, won't we?

 

[Moonglow]

Anyone who can actually do the job.

How many folks that are born know how to lay brick as an infant with their inherent knowledge?

 

[Moonglow]

Racial or sexual discrimination IS a crime.

Unless it's a transgender wanting to play sports.

 

[Correll]

Diversity is not a crime

Doesn't have to be. If they are abusing their licenses to broadcast in order to spread anti--American shit, that is them being bad corporate citizens. The licenses can be revoked.

And clearly, they should be.

 

[Correll]

I always find it amusing that MAGAs who cry about “Marxists” and “commies” are the first ones to applaud the use of governmental power to force businesses to bend to the will of the government.

MAGAs are and have always been closeted marxists.

When you made shit political, you invited a polical response.


It's almost like those clever strategies you people had, to push your message, and your power,


wasn't as clever as you thought they were.

 

[Independent thinker]

Trump's FCC commissioner opens investigation into Walt Disney Co. and ABC for diversity policies

President Trump's head of the FCC had Disney and ABC in his sights. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote to Walt Disney Co.

apnews.com

President Donald Trump’s FCC commissioner said Friday he’s opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced the probe in a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger on Friday. The company said it was reviewing the letter and looking forward to answering the commission’s questions.

The new administration has taken an aggressive posture toward the media on several fronts. Just this week, there were court hearings on the shutdown of Voice of America and the president’s dispute with The Associated Press over how the news agency refers to the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.

Carr has pushed the Federal Communications Commission into an activist role since Trump appointed him as its leader. For example, the FCC currently has open investigations into ABC, CBS and NBC News.


Lets see how the leftist media likes a death by a thousand cuts.

OK, I had to look up invidious.

in·vid·i·ous
[inˈvidēəs]
adjective
invidious (adjective)

1. (of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others:
   "she'd put herself in an invidious position"
   • (of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating; unjust:
     "it seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of his work"

Origin
early 17th century: from Latin invidiosus, from invidia (see envy).

Businesses should be charged with discrimination if they discriminate.

 

[22lcidw]

Unless it's a transgender wanting to play sports.

This is a globalist agenda to weaken us. And it has.

 

[Kondor3]

Unless it's a transgender wanting to play sports.

The transgender can play sports all it wants... amongst its own biological birth-classification peers... the Ancient Sane Perspective.

 

[Coyote]

We'll know soon enough, won't we?

I’m surprised you’ve switched to Big Government. I thought you conservatives were all about less government interference.

We are seeing an unprecedented intrusion of Big Government these days in an attempt to force ideological change as quickly as possible.

People bitch about culture wars, but most cultural change develops organically from the bottom. When enough people apply enough pressure, the government responds. This isn’t what is happening nor is there a mandate for this level change. Everyone was caught flat footed and are struggling to comprehend what is likely some very illegal abuses of power involving free speech and equal protection among other things. The courts are behind the ball.

If you don’t like cultural changes in a business, or the direction they are going in, then it should be addressed through the markets: boycotts, disinvestment etc. or legislation passed by Congress, not executive power.

I fully expect a raft of what-abouts and false equivalencies in response, but you should be very very afraid of the precedents being set. I know I am.

It won’t always be a Republican in office you know.

 

[Coyote]

I agree with you that private companies should be able to discriminate against classes of people. Why didn't you feel this way when Obama & Biden were suing conservatives out the wazoo for doing so?

There was legislation in place to support it and it was either upheld or struck down by the judicial system.

The Executive did not single out specific companies on a purely personal or ideological basis and threaten to withhold Congressionally approved funding if they didn’t comply. The Executive did not single specific law firms and threaten them with financial ruin if they represented things the Executive did not like or as a personal vendetta. This almost certainly violates equal protection and is a serious abuse of power.

DEI is not illegal…and conservatives have warped the meaning into something so broad it means everything and anything they ideologically oppose.

There are laws in place and a system in place. For example, the courts have upheld diversity for university campus with some constraints. Is that why the Executive is by
passing the judicial system to threaten specific entities in this manner?

I’m a believer in systems and checks and balances even if I don’t (sometimes vociferously) agree with the outcome. This is what is being threatened.

No more what abouts please…there is nothing in the recent past at least that is even remotely equivalent to what we are seeing now.

 

[rightwinger]

DEI is not illegal…and conservatives have warped the meaning into something so broad it means everything and anything they ideologically oppose.

DEI has evolved from EEO and Affirmative Action programs of the past.
Programs that opened opportunities for tens of millions of Americans

MAGA has used its war on DEI to attack any program that helps the underrepresented

They are even moving on the Smithsonian to remove displays that honor the achievements of minorities

 

[Coyote]

DEI has evolved from EEO and Affirmative Action programs of the past.
Programs that opened opportunities for tens of millions of Americans

MAGA has used its war on DEI to attack any program that helps the underrepresented

They are even moving on the Smithsonian to remove displays that honor the achievements of minorities

What they doing, with force, to our normally apolitical cultural institutions is dangerous, and echos the acts of former authoritarian leaders like Stalin who enforced strict rules on the arts, museums, public statuary that supported the Soviet message.

I wonder when a statue of Trump will be erected?

 

[Thinker101]

Can the Trump Admin. prove in court that diversity has hurt someone, or that someone was denied their rights because of this?

The reality is, for every DEI hire made, there were a 100 more hires made of well connected applicants.

How about letting the "little people" decide that one.

MSN

 

[justoffal]

I remember when Disney was the gold standard of wholesome, quality entertainment. It's a shame that they succumbed to the woke freak show.

Yep.... It is now the blue hair, chopped penis drag queen story hour show.

 

[Coyote]

Doesn't have to be. If they are abusing their licenses to broadcast in order to spread anti--American shit,

Who gets to define “anti-American shit”?

What happened to freedom of expression?

that is them being bad corporate citizens. The licenses can be revoked.

Bad corporate citizens are now any corporation that doesn’t toe a specific political ideological line. They are only allowed to spread the official Executive’s message.

How Soviet.

How Xi.

How fascist.

How communist.


How Un American.

And clearly, they should be.

 

[Coyote]

How about letting the "little people" decide that one.

MSN

What “little people”?

 

[Thinker101]

What “little people”?

What the hell, don't want to read the link?

 

[Coyote]

Yep.... It is now the blue hair, chopped penis drag queen story hour show.

As is their right. When their market gets fed up, they will start losing revenue and change course. It wasn’t the government that forced Progressive social change on Disney, it was the market, the consumer, and shouldn’t be the government forcing cultural change now.

 

[Kondor3]

I’m surprised you’ve switched to Big Government.

I am an Independent who believes that there are some things better done collectively at the Federal level and some things that are better done on the State or local levels.

I thought you conservatives were all about less government interference.

I am not a Conservative... I am a hybrid, on an issue-by-issue basis; Left of Karl Marx on a couple of things; Right of Atilla the Hun on a couple of things; and right down the middle (Center) on most things. I am not a partisan creature. Both parties suck. Big-time.

We are seeing an unprecedented intrusion of Big Government these days in an attempt to force ideological change as quickly as possible.

We are seeing an unprecedented use of The Law by the Federal government to reverse decades of the worst of insane and suicidal Liberal policies that have been fragmenting the American People for decades. We are now returning to Sanity.

People bitch about culture wars, but most cultural change develops organically from the bottom.

Disagree. Much of the Culture War victories attained by the Left in recent decades have been thrust upon an unwilling American Public by Liberal lawmakers and functionaries who resorted to Public Shaming to achieve their goals. That time is now over.

When enough people apply enough pressure, the government responds. This isn’t what is happening nor is there a mandate for this level change. Everyone was caught flat footed and are struggling to comprehend what is likely some very illegal abuses of power involving free speech and equal protection among other things. The courts are behind the ball.

Election Results in both 2016 and 2024 indicate otherwise.

If you don’t like cultural changes in a business, or the direction they are going in, then it should be addressed through the markets: boycotts, disinvestment etc. or legislation passed by Congress, not executive power.

In this case, Executive Power is being used to execute the Will of the People as expressed in the 2016 and 2024 elections.

I fully expect a raft of what-abouts and false equivalencies in response, but you should be very very afraid of the precedents being set. I know I am.

The precedents being set are no more dangerous than allowing existing and insane Liberal policies to remain on the books.

It won’t always be a Republican in office you know.

True, but given the Return To Sanity that we now see underway, and with the caveat that the 2026 mid-terms and the 2028 general election are the Republicans' to lose... it may very well be a generation-or-so before we see the Democrats winning again.

 

[Coyote]

DEI isn't freedom, it's illegal discrimination.

DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — though the right and the left have two very different interpretations of its definition.

According to Republicans, DEI is a woke agenda to hire women and Black people (totally unqualified ones) so companies can fill diversity quotas, taking jobs away from white men who are qualified.

According to Democrats, DEI is a framework that aims to ensure equal treatment and consideration of all candidates, including people of color, women, veterans, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those who are differently abled.