Ben O’Loughlin will speak about deplatforming and politics at Aarhus University on 22 June 2021. Other speakers are Geoffrey Bowker of University of California, Irvine and Hanna Krasnova of the University of Potsdam in Germany.

The event, Deplatforming Life, is organised by Anja Bechmann, Professor & Director of DATALAB at Aarhus University. Deplatforming is chosen in the light of platforms having the power to deplatform/delete influencers and politicians from their service AND deplatforming at the same time calls for the underlying questions of how/if the internet should avoid being centralized in too few large platform conglomerates and If so what we as a society can do about this especially in the light of regulation.

Ben will consider the dilemmas around deplatforming politicians and political candidates.