bans
Declares off limits
Bans is the plural of ban, a prohibition or official restriction: The city enacted bans on plastic bags and smoking in parks.
As a verb form, bans means prohibits or forbids: The school bans cell phones during class.
What gets banned typically involves public health, safety, or moral concerns—though the wisdom of specific bans is often contested.
Official prohibition on trade
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- interdictionAuthoritative prohibition or blockade
injunction · outlawing · sanctions · blacklist · proscription · forbidding · disallowance · barring
Organized economic protest
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- cancellationVoiding of plans
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
blackballing · excommunication · exile · pariah · outcast · unwelcome · taboo · stigma
Official enactment of statutes
- statuteEnacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
mandate · directive · enactment · injunction · court order · restraining order · cease and desist · ruling
Stopping noise or dissent
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- expurgationRemoval of offensive content
- bowdlerizationSanitizing offensive literary content
sanitization · media control · information control · free speech · deplatforming · shadowban · filtering · blocking
Banishment from homeland
- banishmentForced removal from place
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ostracismBanishment from a group
excommunication · shunning · suspension · disbarment · disqualification · probation · sanction · penalty
embargo
Official prohibition on trade
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
interdiction · injunction · outlawing · sanctions · blacklist · proscription · forbidding · disallowance · barring · prohibition
boycott
Organized economic protest
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- cancellationVoiding of plans
exclusion · blackballing · excommunication · exile · pariah · outcast · unwelcome · taboo · stigma · disapproval
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- statuteEnacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
decree · mandate · directive · enactment · injunction · court order · restraining order · cease and desist · ruling · enforcement
silencing
Stopping noise or dissent
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- expurgationRemoval of offensive content
bowdlerization · sanitization · media control · information control · free speech · deplatforming · shadowban · filtering · blocking · blackout
exile
Banishment from homeland
- banishmentForced removal from place
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
ostracism · excommunication · shunning · suspension · disbarment · disqualification · probation · sanction · penalty · barred
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- content controlcontent filter, parental controls, block list, age restriction, profanity filter
- interdictionsinterdiction, drug interdiction, seizure, seizures, drug seizure
- online moderationrules, warnings, moderation, appeals, enforcement
- Organization Rulesbylaws, charter, constitution, ordinance, policy
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
banspermits
Grants formal authorization
allows · authorizes · approves · sanctions · licenses
banslegalizes
Makes officially permitted
decriminalizes · deregulates · legitimizes · unbans · liberalizes
- travel banProhibition on journeys
- nuclear test banProhibition on atomic explosions
- banned booksLiterature officially prohibited
- smoking banProhibition on tobacco use
- book banningProhibiting access to texts
- banned substancesMaterials forbidden by law