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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)

  1. (transitive) 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 presentunplatforms
present participleunplatforming
past participleunplatformed
pastunplatformed
alternative formun-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.

Words near unplatform in the dictionary

  1. unplasticised
  2. unplasticized
  3. unplastinated
  4. unplat
  5. unplated
  6. unplatform
  7. unplatformed
  8. unplatforming
  9. unplatforms
  10. unplatitudinous
  11. unplats

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