unplatform
unplatform verb: to prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.
Verb
unplatform (third-person singular simple present unplatforms, present participle unplatforming, simple past and past participle unplatformed)
- To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.
- In a sense, however, we can see the IJV signatories as dominated by what Lambert calls the 'Western-intellectual Jews', 'thinkers' or the 'unplatformed': Jewish intellectuals who have an ambivalent relationship with the mainstream Jewish community and its organizations.2010, Keith Kahn-Harris, Ben Gidley, Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today, page 156
- My first thesis – and it is one that is borne out both by Jack Dorsey's initial response to the co-ordinated attempt to 'unplatform' Alex Jones and by the basis on which he later permanently suspended Jones's account – […]2020, Paul S Davies, Magda Raczynska, Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms
Forms of unplatform
| third-person singular present | unplatforms |
|---|---|
| present participle | unplatforming |
| past participle | unplatformed |
| past | unplatformed |
| alternative form | un-platform |
Origin of unplatform
From un- + platform.
Questions about unplatform
- What does unplatform mean?
- Unplatform means to prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion; deplatform.
- What part of speech is unplatform?
- Unplatform is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unplatform?
- The past tense of unplatform is unplatformed.
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