Pros And Cons Of No Platforming

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No platforming has become somewhat of a controversial topic as of recent. No-platforming is the practice of restricting an individual from getting their beliefs across to an audience through media like newspaper, radio, speaking events etc. People (especially students) often advocate for no platforming because they claim speakers’ ideas may be considered ‘hate speech,’ could be traumatic for some listeners, and even oppresses marginalized groups. In the video, one side is pro no-platforming, while the other side, that debates the issues with no-platforming, is of course anti no-platforming (pro-platforming). The no-platformers argue “no-platforming is a democratic intervention in the power structures to enable those who are oppressed to greater …show more content…

“It (no-platforming) fails to differentiate between cases of genuine harm and those of trivial offense or discomfort.” The pro-platformers later discuss how, in the past, no-platforming was restricted to fascist or racist speech but today is used for complaints of feeling uncomfortable or threatened. Speaker 2 on the pro platforming side describes no-platforming as “counterproductive and incoherent” because the views we consider to be wrong are exposed through public discourse, and once we suppress free speech, we do not have the opportunity to allow ideas to be disproven and fail. “So multifaceted are the ways in which hateful views contained within an individual can be expressed and thereby cause harm to someone.” Speaker 2 goes on to explain that suppressing speech does not eradicate the harm, most intolerant or discriminatory discourse, does not take place in the public arena. “The goal has to be, when engaging these public arenas with these platforms, to convince people that certain views they hold are

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