Wed, May 20 | Online Event
VOL 2. Deplatforming: A useful tool to eradicate hate?
To deplatform someone is to remove their access to a channel for delivering messages to an audience. Deplatforming may involve not just banning the user or discontinuing service but also removing any existing content the user previously created on the site or service. So does it work?
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Time & Location
May 20, 2020, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online Event
About the Event
‘Deplatforming’ (also known as ‘no platform’) has become a prominent issue in relation to free speech.
Should we defend the free speech of everyone — extremists included?
Critics would argue that social media bans, videos pulled from Youtube, and speakers banned from speaking on campuses amount to censorship and nothing less than an infringement on free speech.
Are they right? Or when has somebody gone too far?
In this debate, we'll hear from both sides of the coin.
Affirmative to the resolution is Irfan Chaudhry.
Negative to the resolution is Derek Fildebrandt.
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