(Pigs and skeletons, for example, are banned motifs).
Off-the-record conversations have, for example, been banned.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, for example, is banned in his own homeland and the movie based on his novel is not shown.
That's why in places like Saudi Arabia and Taliban-areas of Afghanistan, figurative painting and sculpture, for example, are banned from public life.
Visual reminders of the conflict were often avoided: mutilated servicemen, for example, were banned in the 1920s from joining in veterans' marches, and those with facial injuries often hid them in public.
One of the measures for alleviating air pollution in Beijing, for example, is banning outdoor barbecue stalls.
In the case of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, for example, which was banned by the BBC in 1976 and not screened until 1987, the moral objection of executives related to the context of the scene – a man who might be the devil raping a severely disabled young woman – rather than to its visual content.
That's why, for example, The Lorax was banned in some Pacific Northwest districts where logging was the chief economy.
Undesirable music and books, for example, are "not banned – nothing was banned exactly – simply not played.
For example, Krusty once said that he was banned from television for consecutive 10 and 22 year periods - the first after saying "pants" on the air in Day of the Jackanapes and the second after a disastrous appearance on Rowan & Martin's Laugh In - taking him from 1957 to 89.
