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unplatform en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + platform.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.
   • My first thesis – and it is one that is borne out both by Jack Dorsey's initial response to the co-ordinated attempt to 'unplatform' Alex Jones and by the basis on which he later permanently suspended Jones's account – […] 2020, Paul S Davies, Magda Raczynska, Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms:
   • This apathy also quickly turned to anger and confrontation when at least one licensed lay reader in the Church of England had his sermon 'cancelled' , 'un-platformed' and 'deleted' from the internet because he had the apparent audacity to challenge this apathy and indifference in one small market town in the West Country. 2023, Richard Norton, Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil:
   • In a sense, however, we can see the IJV signatories as dominated by what Lambert calls the 'Western-intellectual Jews', 'thinkers' or the 'unplatformed': Jewish intellectuals who have an ambivalent relationship with the mainstream Jewish community and its organizations. 2010, Keith Kahn-Harris, Ben Gidley, Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, page 156:
   • The term 'cancel culture' has evolved to describe the un-platforming or de-listing of people whose views we consider offensive. 2022, Stephen Frost, The Key to Inclusion, page 4:

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