Are Irish commissioners off the hook – or is free speech still untouchable?
Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars last year. Photo: Reuters
Does the firing of Jimmy Kimmel for wrongspeak mean Coimisiún na Meán is now out of the firing line of US officials set on sanctioning the Irish regulator for moderating extreme speech?
That might be what the Irish commissioners involved may be hoping, as they watch the US go through what resembles an episodes of the dystopian TV show Black Mirror.
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