Ban (law)

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A ban is, generally, any decree that prohibits something.

Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory. Some see this as a negative act (equating it to a form of censorship or discrimination) and others see it as maintaining the "status quo". Bans in commerce are referred to as embargos.

Banning marriages

A marriage ban is used to prevent certain categories of people from marrying each other. For much of the 1800s and 1900s there were bans on marriage between people of different races (interracial marriage). However, the ban on interracial marriage was taken up by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1967 in the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, in which the Court ruled Virginia's miscegenation law an unconstitutional violation of the fundamental right to marriage. This should not be confused with banns of marriage.

Banned persons under Apartheid

During the Apartheid régime in South Africa, the National Party government issued banning orders to individuals seen to be threats to its power — often black politicians or organisations — and acted as suppression orders. Individuals banned by the government could not communicate with more than one person at any time unless at home (thus removing them from partaking in political activities), travel to areas without government approval, or leave the country.

Banning in games and Internet Forums

In internet forums and MMORPGs, the host sometimes has the power to ban players who do not follow the rules.

Banning (sometimes called 'blocking' or 'permabanning') is commonplace in internet culture. The banhammer is a metaphorical tool used in many of these games.

A decree is an order made by a head of state or government and having the force of law. The particular term used for this concept may vary from country to country — the executive orders made by the president of the United States, for example, are decrees.
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Prohibition of alcohol, often shortened to the term prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a sumptuary law in a given jurisdiction which prohibits alcohol.
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Censorship is defined as the removal and/or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body.

Typically censorship is done by governments, religious groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist.
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Discrimination

Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism

Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present, current, existing state of affairs.
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embargo is the prohibition of commerce and trade with a certain country, in order to isolate it and to put its government into a difficult internal situation, given that the effects of the embargo are often able to make its economy suffer from the initiative.
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Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing races marry. This is a form of exogamy (marrying outside of one's social group) and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation (mixing of different races in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations).
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
1964 1965 1966 - 1967 - 1968 1969 1970

Year 1967 (MCMLXVII
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Loving v. Virginia

Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 10, 1967
Decided June 12, 1967

Full case name: Richard Perry Loving, Mildred Jeter Loving v. Virginia

Citations: 388 U.S. 1 ; 87 S. Ct. 1817; 18 L. Ed.
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Commonwealth of Virginia

Flag of Virginia Seal
Nickname(s): Old Dominion, Mother of Presidents
Motto(s): Sic semper tyrannis

Official language(s) English

Capital Richmond
Largest city
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Constitutionality is the status of a law , a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or guidelines set forth in the applicable constitution. When one of these directly violates the constitution it is unconstitutional.
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The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as "the banns
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Apartheid (meaning separate-ness in Afrikaans, cognate to English apart and -hood ) was a system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948, and was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in democratic elections in
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.
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The term banhammer, sometimes called the ban stick, is a satirical term for the banning or blocking of users of Internet forums or online games. The term is often used as a nickname for the actual anti-cheating software that performs the banning action.
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Export restrictions (Restriction on exportation) are restrictions to the quantity of goods exported to a specific country or countries by the government.

This is mainly:

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list of books which have been banned.

Various scriptures have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Qur'an, and other religious scriptures have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries.
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This is an incomplete list of banned computer and video games.

Australia

Video games in Australia cannot be rated R18+ because the rating only exists for film. This has led many games to be edited (to obtain an MA15+ rating) or refused classification.
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