Meaning of unplatform | Babel Free

Definitions

To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.

transitive

Examples

“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.”

“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 – […]”

“The term 'cancel⟳ culture' has evolved to describe⟳ the un-platforming or de-listing of people whose views we consider⟳ offensive.”

“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.”

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