Administrative or political action to deny access to a platform to express opinions
"No-platforming" redirects here. For the British student organization policy, see
No Platform .
A bust of MIT president Francis Amasa Walker separated from its pedestal at the MIT Museum
Deplatforming , also known as no-platforming , is a boycott on an individual or group by removing the platforms used to share their information or ideas.[ 1] The term is commonly associated with social media .
As early as 2015, platforms such as Reddit began to enforce selective bans based, for example, on terms of service that prohibit "hate speech ".[ 2] A famous example of deplatforming was Twitter's ban of then-US President Donald Trump shortly after the January 6 United States Capitol attack .[ 3]
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^ Chandrasekharan, Eshwar; Pavalanathan, Umashanti; Srinivasan, Anirudh; Glynn, Adam; Eisenstein, Jacob; Gilber, Eric (November 2017). "You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech" . Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction . 1 (CSCW): Article 31. doi :10.1145/3134666 . S2CID 22713682 .
^ Allyn, Bobby; Keith, Tamara (January 8, 2021). "Twitter Permanently Suspends Trump, Citing 'Risk Of Further Incitement Of Violence' " . NPR .