Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Bateman and Martin Short are among the members of the Hollywood community who have signed an open letter with the American Civil Liberties Union protesting Disney’s decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show off of its shedule and warning of its ramifications on Americans’ right to speak freely.

The letter says that efforts to pressure artists, journalists, and others with retaliation for their speech “strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country” and closes by calling on all Americans to defend the right to speak freely.

“We now find ourselves in a modern McCarthy era, facing exactly the type of heavy-handed government censorship our Constitution rightfully forbids. The silencing of Jimmy Ki

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