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   no-platform

   verb

   • 1. prevent (a person holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive) from contributing to a public debate or meeting, especially one at which they had originally been invited to speak: British "although she was no-platformed in one city, the other talks in her tour went ahead as planned with no objections or protests"

   noun

   • 1. a policy or stance whereby individuals holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive are prevented from contributing to public debates or meetings: "there has been an increasingly fierce debate around no-platform policies on university campuses"

   Word Origin 1980s: from the No Platform policy of the UK National Union of Students (NUS), forbidding individuals identified as holding racist or fascist views from standing for election to NUS positions or speaking at NUS events.

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