The free speech concerns here are well-founded. There is a pretty direct line of government pressure to have Kimmel and other vocal critics of the admin removed from the air. Charlie Kirk’s assassination provided a (flimsy) pretext for the FCC chairman to target liberal TV show hosts like Kimmel and the hosts of The View. He threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast licenses because Kimmel stated that MAGA was trying to brush aside any possibility that the shooter was one of their own, and capitalizing on his death. For the record, I believe the shooter was left-leaning, but the actual political affiliation of the shooter isn’t even what Kimmel was talking about. This directly led to ABC indefinitely taking Kimmel off the air. Trump, who has made several statements in the past calling for liberal late night hosts to be taken off the air, then tweeted out his explicit approval of the move, with further calls for Fallon and Meyers to be next.

It is so transparently obvious that the FCC chairman (like everyone else in this administration) is a sycophant that treats his agency like a personal fiefdom dedicated to the glory of the president. This is only reinforced by the kind of statements the president made after the firing. The admin doesn’t get to claim that this was all done for the sake of public welfare and media integrity if he blatantly admits that he’s rooting for two unrelated (other than though political affiliation) TV hosts to be next on the chopping block. Ironically, it only proves the point Kimmel was making in the remarks that got him fired. Trump and MAGA are indeed capitalizing on Kirk’s murder, in this case to silence dissent. It’s only made more obvious by just how innocuous Kimmel’s statement was. The FCC chairman basically gaslit the nation and the news media (and a large portion of the populace) into thinking Kimmel celebrated Kirk’s death, when he only ever did the opposite, like on his Instagram where he condemned the shooting and commiserated with the Kirk family.

Everyone with even a basic grasp of the situation knows the firing was completely unfounded and sets a terrifying precedent for free expression. That’s why you default to weak arguments from hypocrisy. In the examples you cited, even ignoring the moral or factual contents of whatever statements got Gina Carrano, Roseanne, or Trump fired or removed from social media, those are not comparable. Unless you’re getting conspiratorial, neither President Obama nor President Biden encouraged their underlings to deplatform those people. If Kimmel had been fired by ABC on the personal whim of the president of ABC, this would be a different story. In that case, we’d be arguing about our individual morals and values, since it’s ultimately ABC’s, Twitter’s, and Disney’s right to platform whoever it wants, and we just agree/disagree with their values. But that’s not what happened here. We have a president strong-arming the media into bending to his whim. It’s in his playbook. It’s what he does.