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> Deplatform: Prevent (a person...) from contributing to a forum or debate, especially by blocking them on a particular website.[1] Everytime someone is remove
by leereeves 6y ago
> Deplatform: Prevent (a person...) from contributing to a forum or debate, especially by blocking them on a particular website.[1]
Everytime someone is removed from a platform they've been deplatformed[2]. The existence of a few remaining platforms that aren't participating in that effort doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And don't be fooled; it is an active, organized effort whose ultimate goal is to make disagreement impossible. Hell, the term for it in the UK is "no-platform", which makes the goal quite clear. You seem to be arguing that movement doesn't exist, simply because it hasn't completely succeeded.
1: https://www.lexico.com/definition/deplatform https://www.lexico.com/definition/deplatform
- mrtksn 6y agoAre half of the US population removed from this platform? Which platform exactly are those 160 million Americans removed from?
- leereeves 6y agoPeople also feel threatened and silenced when someone else who publicly expresses their point of view is deplatformed for it. Do you really think people don't or shouldn't respond to the deplatforming of other people?
- Buttons840 6y agoIs everyone deplatformed? I know of several sub-reddits and websites where people on the left are not be allowed to post.
- nitrogen 6y agoDeplatforming was also problematic on school campuses with anti-free-speech students protesting, disrupting, and aggressively preventing visits by speakers with whom they disagree.