Yes, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was government censorship

"This framing is transparently false. ABC's suspension of Kimmel was the result of an explicit threat from President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, aimed at Disney and companies that worked with it. The move was effective because of the FCC's authority to regulate broadcast TV and, perhaps more importantly, to approve communications mergers in a hyper-consolidated landscape."

"It was repeating a playbook Carr recently used on Disney's fellow media giant Paramount. And it's an unabashed attempt at the government dictating the speech of private TV networks and entertainers, as objectionable and un-American as a McCarthyist blacklist. "We hit some new lows 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.""

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely following a monologue about reactions to Charlie Kirk's death. Republican commentators framed the suspension as a reversal of 'cancel culture' and a form of deplatforming. The suspension followed an explicit threat from FCC Chair Brendan Carr directed at Disney and its partners. The FCC's authority over broadcast regulation and merger approvals in a consolidated media environment made the threat effective. The action repeated a tactic Carr recently used against Paramount and represented government pressure on private networks and entertainers, akin to a McCarthyist blacklist.

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