Unplatform

Quick meaning: Unplatform is a verb meaning (transitive) To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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 – […]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• unplatforms
• unplatforming
• unplatformed
• un-platform

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