It does feel like that first wave of cancel culture lost its steam. Israel/Palestine is fascinating, because people are getting cancelled for being on either side of it.

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yeah it would be cool to see the changing topics of concern overlaid on this chart.

we’re only a couple months into 2024 and it looks like there have already been 28 recorded deplatforming attempts, almost all of them related to Israel/Palestine with a couple others related to abortion.

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Campus Deplatforming Attempts from 1998-2023

The waves are interesting. First, it's the War on Terror (I assume), then it's Woke Cancel Culture. It looks like that was dying down, although maybe it's just that Covid shut down a lot of campuses.

I'd be curious if the recent spike is a continuation of the old woke stuff or if it's more about the Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Palestine conflicts.