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A "no smoking" sign, expressing a ban on smoking in that particular place. A ban is a formal or informal prohibition [1] of something. Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory. Some bans in commerce are referred to as embargoes. Ban is also used as a verb similar in meaning to "to prohibit".
Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.
Ban, Murree, a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan; Ban, an alternate name of Ben, a city in Iran; Ban, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran; Ban, a village in Bănișor Commune, Sălaj County, Romania; Ban (river), a river in Sălaj County, Romania; Ban, habitation in Thai muban; Ban, a settlement in Sarawak, Malaysia
Ban evasion (or block evasion) is the act of attempting to get around a block, ban or other form of sanction imposed on the person's original account, whether temporary or permanent, on a website. Alternate accounts set up by people evading blocks or bans from websites are referred to as sock puppets.
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...
The permanent ban quickly extended to other platforms, including Facebook. Mr Trump has since launched his own social media platform, Truth Social, in an attempt to reclaim the online megaphone ...
Tweet discussing TikTok ban and prospects of sale to an American company to avoid being banned. Image credits: andrews_A_ Twitter reply saying "Land of the free" amidst TikTok ban discussions.
A police raid confiscating illegal alcohol, in Elk Lake, Canada, in 1925. Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.