The goal of a boycott is to bankrupt a company by depriving it of revenue, thereby firing all the people that work for that company. Deplatforming is just a bo

The goal of a boycott is to bankrupt a company by depriving it of revenue, thereby firing all the people that work for that company. Deplatforming is just a boycott by proxy, it's the customers of Twitter / Facebook / YouTube / <fill-in-the-social-media-platform> saying that they won't continue to use their platform if the company uses their position to give a megaphone to someone who espouses ideas they don't like. Boycotts have traditionally been seen as a natural part of a free market economy. The same people that are all about "vote with your dollars" have decided that they would really rather you not vote against them with your dollars and have coined a new turn-of-phrase in hopes of evading public scrutiny. I don't subscribe to the concept that there is a meaningful distinction between "canceling" and "boycotting" it's just marketing spin.