Do you have examples of people attempting to deplatform someone who has not expressed the content of their speech before? From what I can see, deplatforming at

Do you have examples of people attempting to deplatform someone who has not expressed the content of their speech before? From what I can see, deplatforming attempts are in very large majority done towards people who already have demonstrated the quality of their ideas. > because if the ideas were not really constructive or entirely lacked value, then the listeners could dismiss them thoughtfully. If it was true, then racism, populism, or prejudice would not exist at all, because all of that is based on flawed logic that can be easily demonstrated. The reality is that intelligent debate LOSES in front of convenient fearmongering. Not because people are idiot, but simply mathematically: fearmongering is way easier and way more convincing than rationality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law > Or could it be that modern students don't have the ability to think carefully about or make good judgments about speech? I would say that maybe modern students are smarter than before and go further than the naive logic of "if it's incorrect, the rational side will win", which has been demonstrated incorrect again and again in history.