(Reuters) – Film and TV writers held a free-speech demonstration in New York on Friday to protest Disney’s suspension of talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel and President Donald Trump’s efforts to punish broadcasters who speak ill of him or his murdered ally, the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

ABC, the television network owned by the Walt Disney Co, indefinitely suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week after Kimmel discussed Kirk and mocked the president during his opening monologue on Monday’s show.

Some conservatives were outraged by the monologue. The Trump-appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission threatened regulatory action, alarming Democrats and civil rights groups who accused the Trump administration of unconstitutional efforts to censor critical media. The owners of ma

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