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Banning (internet), a technical measure that restricts access to information or resources Banning order , a measure used by the apartheid-era South African government to silence dissent Shadow banning , a practice in which a user of some online community is made invisible to all other users
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".
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. The word is also used to refer to a period of time during which such bans are enforced.
"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [22] In late July 2018, Vice News found that several supporters of the US Republican Party no longer appeared in the auto-populated drop-down search menu on Twitter, thus limiting their visibility when being searched for; Vice News alleged that this was a case of shadow-banning.
Beginning in 2015, Reddit banned several communities on the site ("subreddits") for violating the site's anti-harassment policy. [14] A 2017 study published in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, examining "the causal effects of the ban on both participating users and affected communities," found that "the ban served a number of useful purposes for Reddit" and ...
This is a selection of people subject to a "banning order" by the apartheid-era South African government. Banning was a repressive and extrajudicial measure [ 1 ] used by the South African apartheid regime (1948–1994) against its political opponents . [ 2 ]
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Ban (Internet), the banning of individual users from websites; Body Area Network, a wireless network of wearable computing devices; IP ban, a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses; Shadow ban or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities