No-platform

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deny (a person or organisation) the use of platforms (newspaper columns, speaking engagements, etc) to publish their opinions, etc. transitive

    "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...."

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deplatform

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"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...."

Etymology

From no + platform.

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