Deplatform(ed)

Political Rhetoric (Extremism), 1974

The use of intimidation, sabotage, or violence to prevent a person from being heard by others. Always justified morally against anyone not fully persuaded of extremist left-wing ideas.

“No-Platform” was a form of “direct action” (“prior restraint”) devised in 1974 by the International Marxist Group (IMG) and International Socialists (IS) as an extreme tactic against the hard-right National Front’s recruitment activities on university campuses, and was formally adopted by the National Union of Students (NUS). It was so extreme, even the most left-wing newspapers denounced it.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=deplatform
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=deplatformed
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Platform
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Marxist_Group
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialist_Group
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_%28UK%29
• https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/nus-no-platform-policy-f22f