unplatform

English

Alternative forms

• un-platform

Etymology

From un- +‎ platform.

Verb

unplatform (third-person singular simple present unplatforms, present participle unplatforming, simple past and past participle unplatformed)

1. (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.