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Late in the day on September 17, television broadcasting network ABC confirmed that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program off the air indefinitely over comments the host made in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

On a Sept. 16 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel accused “the MAGA gang” of “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”

The suspension came amid pressure from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr, who in a Sept. 18 podcast appearance called Kimmel’s remarks “a concerted effort to lie to the American people” and said “these companies” need to “find ways to change conduct and take action.”

In a further display of the divide between President Donald Trump supporters celebrating the suspension of Kimmel’s show and those calling it censorship, multiple high-profile Hollywood names, Democratic and some Republican lawmakers, and fans of the show spoke against what they see as undue overreach and government influence on the media.

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With ABC owned by the wider Walt Disney Company (DIS) since 1995, multiple people also went online to say they were canceling park vacations in a sign of protest over the show’s suspension.

“I had reservations at @DisneyParks to the tune of over $7,000 to take my family to Orlando for Christmas,” a Threads user from Wisconsin named Annie wrote on the social media platform. “F**k that. Just canceled it all thanks to their fascist bullshit cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel.”

The post received over 18,000 upvotes within 11 hours of being posted on Wednesday night as the platform started seeing similar posts from other park fans.

“Haven’t been to [a] Disney Park since I was in fourth grade,” another Threads user named BriAnne Burton wrote on Sept. 18. “Heading to Orlando next week, canceling trip to Disney World.”

“I need to explain to my daughter why we canceled Disney,” a Brooklyn special education teacher named Mike similarly wrote. “We also will not do our biannual trip to Disney World anymore.”

The Walt Disney Company owns 12 parks as well as multiple film studios and television networks.

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“We are supposed to go to Disneyland in December,” Kathe Whitnell wrote under another post calling for widespread boycotts. “We might have to rethink that decision.”

Within an hour of the markets opening on Sept. 18, Disney shares were down by 1% to $111. The larger Disney company has yet to issue a formal statement on the suspension.

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The president of Nexstar, a media group that owns 32 of the total 200 ABC affiliates and announced before ABC that it would not be airing Kimmel’s show, had previously called Kimmel’s comments “offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse.”

In a rare comment on the Trump administration, former President Barack Obama said actions like those of ABC and Nexstar take “cancel culture” to “a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”