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This is presented as some kind of gotcha post, but it just completely misses the point unless ABC was, then, also pressured to cancel that show by the chair of a government dependent regulatory agency by threatening to revoke or not renew their broadcasting license.
If you don't understand the difference, you don't understand free speech.
There are plenty of similarities in all these cases, but the bottom line is that all of these things were business decisions that flowed with the then administration of US. Roseanne wasn't thrown to the curb by ABC because somebody high up didn't like what she was saying. She was fired because they didn't like what her sayings were about to cause their finances.
Gina Carano changed her pronouns to "beep/bop/boop" and got fired.
I'm not trying to say that any of these were ok because the other side did it too. That would be dumb. I'm trying to say that the correct way to think about is either A) all of these firings are bad or B) all of these firings are fine. There are no other options.
c) each of these firings are different