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Sep 7, 2021 · Deplatforming. If the stakes in any given self-cancellation episode are vanishingly small in the grand scheme of things, the overall effect is not.
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Oct 4, 2019 · Deplatforming works. The success of this tactic is shown clearly in a report by researchers from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Swansea University, ‘Following the Whack-a-Mole’, which explored the impact of deplatforming on the British far-right group, Britain First.
Deplatforming may limit the breath of hate and extremism on mainstream platforms but increase extremists’ motivations to plot, doing so in secret. On the other hand, allowing hate unfettered access to the worlds’ most powerful megaphones to recruit more to their cause is similarly risky.
Deplatforming, also called no-platforming, is a form of Internet censorship of an individual or group by preventing them from posting on the platforms they use to share their information/ideas. This typically involves suspension, outright bans, or reducing spread (shadow banning).
This Article offers a history and theory of the law of deplatforming across networks, platforms, and utilities. Part I shows that there has been a long history of deplatforming in the common law and in the transportation, communications, energy, and banking sectors.
Feb 11, 2021 · In its totality, deplatforming could force the decentralized extremist landscape into more hierarchically structured groups that enables leaders to control how violence is orchestrated and how finances are secured and managed.
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Jan 19, 2021 · Almost everyone’s position changes depending on who is being silenced, suppressed or de-platformed, and who is doing the silencing. Those of us who support free expression and its legal underpinnings on a consistent basis are few and far between. Three examples serve to make this case.