No-platform

Quick meaning: No-platform is a verb meaning (transitive) To deny (a person or organisation) the use of platforms (newspaper columns, speaking engagements, etc) to publish their opinions, etc.

Meaning

(transitive) To deny (a person or organisation) the use of platforms (newspaper columns, speaking engagements, etc) to publish their opinions, etc.

Example Sentences

As in the rest of Europe the establishment won't allow the matter to be discussed openly because anyone who believes in limits is a racist so must be no platformed.

Concerns have been raised over attempts to “no platform” speakers with views deemed unacceptable to segments of the student body, as well as attempts to create safe spaces within universities where criticism is discouraged.

Afaics, "no platforming" has always had a tendency to interpret and expand the definitions of what is effectively to be censored, such that (just by coincidence, of course) only the views of those imposing it remain... unopposed.

Word Forms

• no-platforms
• no-platforming
• no-platformed

Synonyms for no-platform

Depending on context, synonyms include deplatform.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unplatform, deplatform, deny, forbid, disallow, ground.

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