History Main / BannedInChina

* Since May 7, 2024, Platform/{{Steam}} has been blocked in Vietnam by the state-owned telecom company Viettel at the DNS level[[note]]Vietnamese users have been advised to adjust their public DNS settings to bypass the blockade, as using [=VPNs=] could potentially violate Steam's Terms of Service[[/note]]. Needless to say, many Vietnamese gamers are infuriated, with some voicing their concern on a ban on the platform nationwide. These concerns stem from Steam's failure to comply with local regulations, notably the absence of a physical presence in Vietnam, which hinders tax payments and acquisition of licenses for game distribution. Steam's inability to regulate adult content in games doesn't help either.

* Since May 7, 2024, Platform/{{Steam}} has been blocked in Vietnam by the state-owned telecom company Viettel at the DNS level[[note]]Vietnamese users have been advised to adjust their public DNS settings to bypass the blockade, as using VPNs could potentially violate Steam's Terms of Service[[/note]]. Needless to say, many Vietnamese gamers are infuriated, with some voicing their concern on a ban on the platform nationwide. These concerns stem from Steam's failure to comply with local regulations, notably the absence of a physical presence in Vietnam, which hinders tax payments. Steam's inability to regulate adult content in games doesn't help either.

** This has happened to other movies as well, such as the French film ''Film/LesEnfantsDeTimpelbach'' when Creator/GerardDepardieu did exactly what Seagal did, as well as the Volodymyr Zelenskyy romance flick ''Film/8FirstDates'' when one of the featured actresses went there to attend a comedy show.

* Simply visiting Crimea without permission from the Ukrainian government can also get an actor blacklisted, which usually leads to parts of their filmography getting banned. That way, movies like ''Film/{{Machete}}'', ''Film/8FirstDates'' and ''Film/LesEnfantsDeTimpelbach'' got banned (the offending actors are Creator/StevenSeagal, Yekaterina Varnava and Gérard Depardieu, respectively)

* The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council once [[https://www.cbsc.ca/news-releases/page/power-rangers-too-violent-says-ontario-council declared]] ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' to be too violent for children's programming, which resulted in the series being barred from airing on Canadian airwaves.[[note]]Later on, they [[https://www.cbsc.ca/news-releases/page/content-of-power-rangers-wild-force-series-is-not-problematicsays-canadian-broadcast-standards-council declared]] that ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' was not too violent, unlike the original series.[[/note]] The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise was also once banned from TV in New Zealand after its first season (until the ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' season) due to complaints from parents whose children injured themselves trying to imitate the show's fight scenes. What's weird is that every series from ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' onward is filmed on location in New Zealand with New Zealand-born actors and actresses. Also, while the ''Power Rangers'' franchise wasn't outright banned in Malaysia (although there are episodes that are withheld from broadcast), the Malaysian censors rather hilariously refused to allow use of the word "morphin'", largely due to outcry from [[MoralGuardians helicopter mums]] that the word was too close to the word "morphine" and would [[InsaneTrollLogic convince young viewers to use drugs]].

* ''Film/Zulu'' was banned because it depicts a Zulu uprising. The catch is that it was only banned for black people. White people could go see it in a theatre just fine.

* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Music/{{Melt}}'' was banned during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra due to the song "Biko", a ProtestSong written as a tribute to black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed in police custody in 1977 (as dramatized in the above-mentioned film ''Cry Freedom'').

** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E10LittleBigMom Little Big Mom]]" (the season 11 episode where Lisa is left to care for Homer and Bart after Marge breaks her leg) is also banned in Japan as a part of the plot involves Lisa tricking Homer and Bart into thinking they have leprosy. Japan has a very controversial history involving discrimination against lepers and to have an episode like that air would be considered offensive (though not as much as "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"). There's also the fact that it depicts Lisa, who is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff beloved in Japan]] due to her character being more in-line with Japanese ideals than, say, Bart or Homer, committing deception against her father, and such disrespect is taken ''very'' seriously in Japanese households. Much like the aforementioned "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", the episode is also absent from Disney+ in Japan, and does not have Japanese dubbing or even Japanese subtitles on on Disney+ either outside of Japan.