unplatform
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[edit]unplatform (third-person singular simple present unplatforms, present participle unplatforming, simple past and past participle unplatformed)
- (transitive) To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.
- 2010, Keith Kahn-Harris, Ben Gidley, Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, page 156:
- 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.
- 2020, Paul S Davies, Magda Raczynska, Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms:
- 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 – […]
- 2022, Stephen Frost, The Key to Inclusion, page 4:
- The term 'cancel culture' has evolved to describe the un-platforming or de-listing of people whose views we consider offensive.
- 2023, Richard Norton, Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil:
- 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.