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* In 2016, the [[http://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/hooters-to-close-rockville-pike-location-in-wake-of-officers-death Rockville, MD Hooters closed and gave up its liquor license]] after [[TheAlcoholic Luis Gustavo Reluzco]] [[DrunkDriver drove away from the Hooters after drinking heavily there]]. Reluzco then [[CopKiller struck and killed Officer Noah Leotta]]. The restaurant was forced to close because one the Hooter Girls continued to serve him while he was drunk.

* Everyone, just pretty much everyone who happens to be an InnocentBystander can be the exact reason for this trope and the prime harbinger of why some are either BornLucky or BornUnlucky, as each action is simply be a SpannerInTheWorks that [[ForWantOfANail drives your life]] in every way. And neither side will actually notice until it is too late.
* Part of the reason why photos of UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden's corpse will not be released to the public is because of fears that it will be used as [[ForumSpeak Garbage Post Kid]] bait. The more Internet savvy or just Internet-''visible'' have long been struggling to keep both good and bad material related to themselves off the Internet due to [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't, and sometimes it has [[StreisandEffect the opposite effect]].
* There are many people who own large stretches of wilderness, which they leave open to the public for outdoor activities... until one too many people leave big piles of litter, have loud parties late at night, tear up the ground with four-wheelers, etc, and next thing you know the '''NO TRESPASSING''' signs are up.
** This is what happened at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgas_Water_Temple Pulgas Water Temple]] in California, long cherished by meditators and quiet LSD trippers. It used to be 24/7/365. Now it has strictly enforced hours.

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* Teachers in many schools may sometimes reward their class (candy, no homework, etc.) if the ''entire'' class is on their best behavior. There will usually be one or two children that misbehaves (usually out of ignorance and not ill will), causing the teacher to revoke the reward for the entire class, which also causes the class to now scowl at the troublemakers for screwing everyone out of the reward. This method of reward versus punishment tend to be very difficult to implement on very young children since they do not fully grasp the concept of consequences or how their actions can affect other people.
** This one got a bit rougher when the crusade against bullying was in full-swing. Since the troublemaker ruined the chance for the entire class, if they weren't the bully themselves then often they'd be bullied for screwing it up. The natural shockwave of this was for most teachers to stop handing out class-wide rewards entirely.
** This form of discipline is common enough in the armed forces as well, especially in training, leading many to make the cynical observation that the military takes a group of motivated adults, tasked with the responsibility of fighting to the death for their nation's interests, and treats them like a classroom full of schoolchildren. At least in the military, the reasoning can be made that one person's mistake (whether in combat, or while representing his unit or country when dealing with civilian populations) can cause widespread problems for everyone else, even without a reward at stake.
* Speaking of schools, many high schools used to allow students who drove to get lunch off campus as long as they arrived on time for their next class. This led to problems like cutting class, car accidents, and bringing contraband onto school grounds. Furthermore, school violence and drug issues make violations of said bans a much larger deal than they would have otherwise been. The offenders will often have their car (and themselves) searched thoroughly and will be interrogated by school officials about their whereabouts.
* Ordering food on the Internet (whether take out or groceries) is extremely convenient, but some people have abused online ordering by ordering only one item, like a stick of gum or one serving of french fries. In order to save time and money being wasted, many establishments now either impose a minimum delivery total or charge a penalty fee for small tickets.
* Fast food restaurants used to be able to serve absurdly large serving sizes (for example, UsefulNotes/McDonalds infamous Super Size) until people started to [[FrivolousLawsuit sue the fast food corporations for making them fat.]] Many eateries now don't go beyond the size of "large".
* Food stores and supermarkets tend to give out free samples of a food product to entice the customer to buy said product. Usually, there is no limit on how many samples one person can take, so there will always be at least one guy that takes most or ''all'' of the samples for themselves and/or friends while leaving nothing for the next customer. The store responds by either cutting back on samples or stops giving them out completely in order to save on costs. Another method is to have somebody personally handing out the samples, though this still means less, since they can only afford to have a live person doing it every so often.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Small Creators on Youtube can no longer monetize(ie make money off of) their videos on Youtube]] thanks to controversies created by larger Content Creators such as Logan Paul and Pewdiepie, [[KarmaHoudini who get off with only a slap on the wrist]]. Due to the rise of trolls and hate speech popping up in the comments sections, advertisers are [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere pulling out from the Youtube platform]] since they don't want to be associated with channels that have users spewing hate speech openly. Youtube's solution to the mess? Demonitize the offending videos if the creator doesn't put a lid on the abusive behavior from their users. This in turn caused many content creators to simply disable comments on their videos to avoid losing money, so now no one gets to have any form of discussion.

** Speaking of the Olympic Games, Munich 1972 opened with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obPxAMiRiv4 this kind of thing]] and a sweet spirit of lighthearted celebration intended to wipe out the evil memories of the "Nazi Games" and look forward to a future of universal brotherhood. Of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4aPBbJuFLA this happened]]- a group of terrorists known as Black September were able to take hostage and kill athletes from the Israeli team. Ironically, part of the reason the terrorists were able to get in in the first place was that Olympic Village security didn't want to be fascists and responding to complaints of "Gestapo tactics" by both athletes and journalists had relaxed their rules, especially at night. The terrorists just pretended to be more drunken Americans climbing the fence after hours.
* Areas and buildings that are historical are usually allowed to have tourists take a look at them for educational values. All it takes is one person to do something stupid, like defiling a piece of art or [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-tourists-who-managed-to-be-worst-people-in-world/ scribbling doodles in a 3000 year old Egyptian pyramid]], that causes the staff to clamp down on how close people can get to the historical artifacts.
** There's a reason El Castillo (that large pyramid temple in Chichen Itza) is now closed off to tourists.
** How close does [[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=487_1207919661 slapping your dick against the Taj Mahal]] come to this trope?
* Popular movies and TV shows with exterior shots of iconic homes become a tourist pilgrimage for fans traveling far to visit the real life location. Usually, they are privately owned residences. Current homeowners do welcome tourists flocking to take pictures, but may end up restricting by installing fences and signs if they are fed up with littering and trespassing. An example is ''Film/TheGoonies'' house in Astoria, Oregon where the homeowner draped her house in tarp due to the influx of tourists during the film's 30th anniversary. This extends to popular anime and video games with settings inspired by real life neighborhoods and landmarks in remote locations.
* ''Midnight Rider'', an infamously TroubledProduction, may meet this fate due to [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/midnight-rider-accident-sarah-jones-death-gregg-allman-685976 the on-set death of camera assistant Sarah Jones by train]]. [[http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/25/gregg-allman-letter-midnight-rider/ For the rest of his life, Gregg Allman didn't want to share his story with moviegoers anymore due to the incident]], which was labelled an act of criminal negligence on the part of the filmmakers.

** This has, of course, just caused abusive moderators to lock and delete threads they don't like, making the change rather pointless.
* More events are now checking bags because of so many shootings in the United States. [[http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/08/regal-cinemas-search-bags-security/ Regal Cinemas started checking any bags brought into the theaters in Summer 2015.]]
** Or, at least, that was what they said they were going to do. But it's either not being enforced anymore or only being selectively/randomly enforced.
** Even occurring to venues elsewhere around the world implementing bag checks due to recent terrorist attacks and the fears.
* Multiple news stories appeared in 2015 that fit squarely into this trope. Among others, [[http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/05/us/west-point-pillow-fight/ the West Point Pillow Fight, meant as a time of amusement and harmless fun for cadets]], which turned bloody due to a number of "participants" putting helmets in their pillow cases, causing numerous injuries.
* In the US, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics gun control]] is very divisive, because too many gun owners come off as this. The response among the 3D printing community and the pro gun community to the invention of the Liberator Pistol can be described as less "that'll show em" and more "you're gonna make em take away our rights". The Liberator is the first gun made almost entirely out of 3D printed components [[note]]The only two parts that aren't 3D printed are the firing pin (a hobby store nail) and a block of metal that simply prevents the gun from being completely illegal to test by making it metal detector compliant[[/note]], and essentially functions as a single shot close range gun. Gun fans and 3D printers were worried that this development would cause the governments of the world to crack down on both industries, fears that weren't at all alleviated when a group of reporters managed to get an (unloaded) Liberator within throwing distance of the Prime Minister of Israel.
* In Spring 2016, Magazine/{{Playboy}}'s magazines stopped featuring nude photos due to the rampant upswing of Internet pornography making nudes passé. They were forced to backtrack after a year, however, because their sales tanked. Nude models are Playboy's main draw, love it or hate it; they're pretty much stuck with it.
* Public restrooms. They may be called "public," but, of course, people expect a certain amount of privacy, i.e. closed stalls and not having stuff like cameras monitoring it because that would just be creepy. Unfortunately, this, of course, means that they're sometimes used by the seedy elements for stuff like doing drugs, conducting other BlackMarket transactions, etc., as well as being a frequent target for indiscriminate vandalism. If enough people do this, they sometimes end up just getting closed down.
* Some business, such as stores and banks, sometimes simply choose not to operate in areas riddled with a lot of crime. (Though, in some cases, this may be only [[UnfortunateImplications one]] [[UrbanSegregation excuse.]]) This, of course, leads to a vicious cycle because people in those areas either have to go out of their way to get what they need, or end up paying more for stuff they can barely afford. See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert food desert]].

* This is why music players like phones are usually banned during tests, due to one too many cheating students abusing them for the sake of being told the answers through them.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking#United_States Hitchhiking]] has been [[http://richardbellush.blogspot.com/2014/06/ virtually dead in the U.S.]] for many years, thanks to "stranger danger" warnings and too many actual incidents where either the hitcher or the hitchee was the victim of robbery, rape, murder or all three. In Canada, some techies created [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT Hitchbot]], a robot with a camera, a Twitter feed, and AI, to see [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman if humans could care for robots]]. She was supposed to be transported by whoever found her and left in some public place for the next person to find. In the summer of 2014 she traveled across Canada from Halifax to Victoria, then visited Germany and the Netherlands. When her creators updated her a bit and sent her to hitchhike through the United States, she ended up being stripped and decapitated in Philedelphia.
* Because of a few inconsiderate people who feel that it's OK to trash hotel rooms, pee in the hallway, write graffiti, harass other congoers, harass people who are at the hotel for other reasons, throw loud parties, etc., hotels will refuse to host {{Fan Convention}}s. Or else they'll jack up the cost of the rooms, which in turn causes the price of con tickets to go up. So, please. Be considerate when you go to a con. Otherwise, you may find that you don't have a con to go ''to''.
** Particularly notable is the ''Homestuck'' fandom. It's fun to cosplay as one of the Trolls, but then hotels got stuck with trying to clean the smears of gray body-paint all over the walls, doors, and bedsheets. At least one place had to unclog their hot tub after con-goers decided to jump in while in full costume!
** The WebVideo/InternetHistorian goes over the fall [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Rainfurrest]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmULc5VANsw this video]]. The things some of the con-goers did to get the con banned can only be described as CrossesTheLineTwice. However in the Q&A, IH also notes that the event organizers are partially to blame as they little to nothing to curb degenerate behavior over years, to the point where a few individuals felt they could behave, well, like animals. Still a few individuals, and an internal saboteur, ruined it for everybody.

* Atoms For Peace, an Eisenhower administration pet project, gave nuclear reactors to developing countries to start their own nuclear power projects and help boost their economies. Nearly all the recipient countries tried to make nuclear weapons with these reactors and two of them (India and Pakistan) succeeded.

* Service animals, like seeing eye dogs, and dogs that are certified to provide emotional support to people who really need it like [[ShellShockedVeteran Service-people who have come from overseas,]] are very useful and are usually allowed to follow their person around everywhere. [[https://hiehelpcenter.org/2018/02/20/airline-crackdowns-emotional-support-animals-incite-controversy/ Following a series of incidents]] where people have labeled their (sometimes untrained) pet as an "emotional support animal" that have resulted in people getting bitten in airplanes, or running amok in the cabin, airlines have considered banning such animals from flying in the passenger cabin, or at least increase the scrutiny of the animals allowed to come aboard, including well trained, legitimate service animals that are essential for the well being of those who need them.
* A concern with "Safe Spaces," such as [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame gay bars]]. If too many people from outside the marginalized group it was set up for come in, it loses its purpose. Recently, women's interest magazines have suggested that (straight) women go to gay bars, so that they can be free to drink and dance without being hit on by creepy, sometimes JerkAss men who won't take "no" for an answer. The problem is that some of these women (not all, but enough that it's a real problem) ComeToGawk and act like obnoxious {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, or go to check of a "progressive" or "ally" or "good person" box they may not actually be entitled to check off. Not only that, but a lot of the creepy straight men these women were trying to get away from have caught onto this, and come to gay bars to pick up women...and can be obnoxious (or even cruel and violent) towards gay men there. This leads to the LGBTQ+ people the bar was ''meant'' for avoiding it, because the whole point of this place was to avoid being ogled or being given dirty looks/rude comments/violence/etc. There ''can'' be legitimate reasons for a straight person to go to these places: being invited by an LGBTQ+ friend or relative, acting as moral support or a wingperson for someone who wishes it, or seeing a performer such as a comedian or a band, but you ''do'' have to respect the space and the people in it, and don't make it a regular thing. (Remember, you are a guest, and guests can [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave wear out their welcome]].) And if you're using someone else's safe space as an unrelated safe space for you and your friends, then either [[StartMyOwn set up your own space]], or be content with drinking at home or at restaurants instead of bars and nightclubs.
* This is a common reaction when someone's cat breaks something.
* Website/{{Tumblr}} was no stranger to pornography, but the site did very little about it since for the most part, there was no harm to it. Thanks to the people who used Tumblr to upload child pornography and related material, Google and Apple banned the Tumblr app from their storefront and in the end of 2018, Tumblr prohibited pornography of all kinds. The ban on porn also harmed many artists who made a living selling nude art and/or pornographic art and even non porn artists had their works tagged as pornography by Tumblr's algorithms. The changed cause many people to do a mass logout protests while others [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere deleted their Tumblr accounts.]]
** This is also what happened to UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}}, which counts as one of the first ''internet'' social media or discussion sites.[[note]]Social media was actually born in the 1970s with the PLATO computer network, and continued into the 1980s with BBS systems like the still-existing [[https://www.well.com/ WELL]] and [[https://www.echonyc.com/ Echo]], New York's "virtual salon".[[/note]] Usenet was once accessible through any computer and you could set your email client to subscribe to and download your favorite newsgroups. It was an extremely useful service for uncensored discussions of all kinds for free. Ripped-off binaries, child pornography, pirated material and other illegally encoded stuff caused most internet providers to stop Usenet service. Usenet was bought by Google and is now called Google Groups, a mere shadow of its former vibrant self. Other services allow you to access Usenet via paid subscription.
** Pornhub had a similar situation to Tumblr. After it came to light that a lot of the anonymous user-submitted content featured pedophilia and human trafficking victims, there was basically no way to sort it out and they nuked everything but verified accounts.

* This is what happens in condos where at least one owner or tenant doesn't pay his dues: there's less and less money available to fix issues or improve the building and, as a result, everyone there suffers.
* Countries with widespread tax fraud have less money available to improve the infrastructures and the public services, harming everyone.
** The same is of course true when taxes are cut, especially when they are cut for top earners. Top earners meanwhile don't care. Potholes? Use the helicopter. Crappy schools? Send the kids to private boarding schools. Rampant crime? Hide behind the walls of a gated community...
* The practice of gentrification. Real-estate developers come in intending to revitalize a neighborhood (often one that is low-income and/or populated mainly by minorities). They do that by putting in high-end luxury apartments, condos, and townhouses, which no one that lives in this neighborhood can afford. That leads to landlords jacking up their rent costs in an attempt to compete. Additionally, mom-and-pop stores are replaced with chain stores and high-end department stores, leading to less economic opportunity. As a result, people that once lived in this neighborhood (many that built a unique community culture and repoire with their neighbors) end up having to pack up and move, because they can no longer afford the rent costs and their small businesses can no longer compete with the bigger ones moving in.

%%* People who make false rape/sexual harassment charges. The alleged victim would be either looking for sympathy, out to destroy a person's life out of spite, or simply out of a twisted since of humor. All the same, someone's life is usually ruined even if the falsehood comes to light, but with every faker discovered, it becomes harder and harder to take these cases seriously, because the question is 'did the attacker have ill intent, or does the victim think this is a game?'
%%* The Body Positivity movement. It was intended to help people with physical deformities, either due to injury or born with them, or people who otherwise didn't have the 'ideal' body shape to feel better about themselves. People took the 'a bit of chunk is no big deal' and used it to justify sitting around, eating junkfood and generally just not taking care of themselves. Cut to the 2010s in which the group has re-branded itself the 'Fat Acceptance' movement, preaching about how not stuffing one's face with cake and candy is what they call 'fatphobic', as are any other words against them, despise doctors to the point of vilifying them and throw around 'skinny bitches' as a general insult.

* During the COVID-19 outbreak, many local businesses enforced a rule that all customers need to wear masks in order to protect each other and the staff, if their state or municipality did not already require them to do so. Due to many people being anti-mask for various reasons, those people verbally and physically assaulted employees over the masks rules. [[https://twitter.com/hugostacos/status/1277267379425288197 One business temporarily closed down]] to protect its employees from the very irate customers that were throwing things and using racial slurs when they were told to wear a mask. Another business also had to shut down (after one day of reopening to boot) due to their customers [[https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/11/ice-cream-shop-closes-employee-harassment-coronavirus-distancing-dnt-vpx.wfxt also refusing to wear masks and harass the employees]]. The shutdowns not only affected the employees' livelihoods, but also screws over the nicer customers that just wanted to get food to eat.

* Throughout history, there have been stories of initially peaceful protests where violence/vandalism broke out, either because some of the protestors themselves get out of hand (Type 2) or as a deliberate action by outside agitators to discredit the protests (Type 1). This can lead to governments/law enforcement cracking down on the entire protest, even if many/most of the protestors ''were'' just peacefully marching and not doing anything wrong.
* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} trading cards were always popular among collectors. In 2021 due to various factors like people trying to sell the cards online for a high price, stores were frequently sold out and people would get into fights against each other since both parties wanted the cards for themselves. The affected stores tried to limit the cards to only one pack per customer, but when that didn't work, they temporarily stopped selling them completely. Everyone else that just wanted the cards to play with or to give to their children was screwed over. A similar phenomenon occurred when UsefulNotes/McDonalds bundled Pokemon cards with their happy meals where scalpers would buy said happy meals in large amounts just to get the cards, leaving none for actual customers.
* Due to vandalism -and practicality, as it's much easier to clean plain plastic-, padded seats often present on some public transport systems were often replaced by less comfortable ones of either plastic or sturdier design. Same for features often present on them as USB chargers, lighting and AC grids over each seat, etc. that are broken and left so due to vandals messing with them.
* Being employed or volunteering in institutions that work with children (schools, churches, sports teams, entertainment centers for children) used to be as easy as filling out an application or sign up sheet. Thanks to abuse scandals, this is no longer the case. Most positions of this sort will now require lengthy background checks and training classes which can take months to process. In some cases it can even apply when the position doesn’t involve working with children, such as serving refreshments after a church service.

* ''Jane Austen's Mafia'' features the {{Trope Namer|s}} a second before the Trope Namer to GetOut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzB1-NIVtA here]].

** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' Provides a fine example: Tracking the wounded Godzilla, MONARCH finds an ancient city beneath the ocean, where Godzilla has come to rest. It's the historical and archaeological find of the ''millennium'', but Godzilla needs to be healed in order to fight King Ghidorah ''right now'', and the only way to do that is to set off a nuke in his face. For mankind to survive, the city ''has'' to be destroyed.

** In "Merry Wishmas", Timmy turns into [[TheAntiGrinch an anti-Grinch]] when he wants to give every disappointed person in Dimmsdale who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas a coupon for one free wish. Everything appears to be going fine... until Vicki feels slighted by just one wish, so she wishes for a million wishes, with some of the extra wishes going to other Dimmsdale residents who go on a wishing spree. In Fairy World, when the big wand gets overloaded, Jurgen traces the problem to Dimmsdale and finds that Timmy is responsible for giving everyone wishes, so he shuts off the magic power and plans to have Wishmas replace Christmas so the fairies can rule the holidays, with Santa Claus moving into Timmy's house after he feels kids don't need him anymore. After capturing Jurgen, Cosmo and Wanda (known as the Magic Mailman and the Mail Mites), Santa comes out of retirement when the kids are disappointed by Wishmas, with the kids filling Santa's sleigh with the mountain of surplus toys.

** This is also what happened to Website/{{Usenet}}, which counts as one of the first ''internet'' social media or discussion sites.[[note]]Social media was actually born in the 1970s with the PLATO computer network, and continued into the 1980s with BBS systems like the still-existing [[https://www.well.com/ WELL]] and [[https://www.echonyc.com/ Echo]], New York's "virtual salon".[[/note]] Usenet was once accessible through any computer and you could set your email client to subscribe to and download your favorite newsgroups. It was an extremely useful service for uncensored discussions of all kinds for free. Ripped-off binaries, child pornography, pirated material and other illegally encoded stuff caused most internet providers to stop Usenet service. Usenet was bought by Google and is now called Google Groups, a mere shadow of its former vibrant self. Other services allow you to access Usenet via paid subscription.

* Go to the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease section [[Wiki/TVTropes on This Very Wiki]] and you will see a lot of examples of why we can't have nice real life examples, especially because of some people just couldn't resist FlameBait. Locked pages often also qualify.

* [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] has a few examples. For one, the ability to have strike-through text is disabled outside the forums because some editors would be tempted to abuse it for editorially-inappropriate snark.

* Public restrooms. They may be called "public," but, of course, people expect a certain amount of privacy, i.e. closed stalls and not having stuff like cameras monitoring it because that would just be creepy. Unfortunately, this, of course, means that they're sometimes used by the seedy elements for stuff like doing drugs, conducting other BlackMarket transactions, etc. If enough people do this, they sometimes end up just getting closed down.

* In the sixth episode of ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', Tom wears a FunTShirt that says this, and depicts [[UpToEleven the Hindenberg crashing into the Titanic]].

* Being employed or volunteering in institutions that work with children (schools, churches, sports teams, entertainment centers for children) used to be as easy as filling out an application or sign up sheet. Thanks to abuse scandals, this is no longer the case. Most positions of this sort will now require lengthy background checks and training classes which can take months to process. In some cases it can even apply when the position doesn’t involve working with children, (such as serving refreshments after a church service).

* During the COVID-19 outbreak, many local businesses enforced a rule that all customers need to wear masks in order to protect each other and the staff, if their state or municipality did not already require them to do so. Due to many people being anti-mask for various reasons, those people verbally and physically assaulted employees over the masks rules. [[https://twitter.com/hugostacos/status/1277267379425288197 One business temporarily closed down]] to protect its employees from the very irate customers that were throwing things and using racial slurs when they were told to wear a mask. Another business also had to shut down (after one day of reopening to boot) due to their customers [[https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/11/ice-cream-shop-closes-employee-harassment-coronavirus-distancing-dnt-vpx.wfxt also refusing to wear masks and harass the employees]]. The shutdowns not only affected the employee's livelihoods, but also screws over the nicer customers that just wanted to get food to eat.

* According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOtPR0DZdU this video]], back in Sweden in [[TheSixties the 1960s']] this person's grandfather bought a monkey from a sailor that came into his shop one day. After being locked up in it's cage for several months, the monkey attacked and severely wounded its owner when it was finally let out, and the police were called in to deal with the situation, but after they couldn't capture it, they shot and killed it. A few months after the incident, no charges were filed as he had commited no real crimes, so the Swedish government created new laws that banned any animal that could be classified as an exotic pet within its national borders.

* More events are now checking bags because of so many shootings in the United States. [[http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/08/regal-cinemas-search-bags-security/ Regal Cinemas will start checking any bags brought into the theaters in Summer 2015.]]

* In the US, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics gun control]] is very divisive, because too many gun owners come off as this. The response among the 3D printing community and the pro gun community to the invention of the Liberator Pistol can be described as less "that'll show em" and more "you're gonna make em take away our rights". The Liberator is the first gun made almost entirely out of 3D printed components [[note]]The only two parts that aren't 3D printed are the firing pin (a hobby store nail) and a block of metal that simply prevents the gun from being completely illegal to test by making it metal detector compliant[[/note]], and essentially functions as a single shot close range gun. Gun fans and 3D printers were worried that this development would cause the governments of the world to crack down on both industries, fears that weren't at all alleviated when a group of reports manged to get an (unloaded) Liberator within throwing distance of the Prime Minister of Israel.

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** In “Team Homer” Bart wears a shirt with the words “Down with Homework”, leashing to chaos in Springfield Elementary. As a result, Principal Skinner creates a school uniform to the detriment of the student body. In one sequence, military-like marching can be seen and heard.

** [[spoiler: Anders blew up the Chantry, causing Templars everywhere to crack down on all mages, forcing mages all over Thedas to either leave the Circle or get persecuted/killed.]]

* In the US, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics gun control]] is very divisive, because too many gun owners come off as this. The response among the 3D printing community and the pro gun community to the invention of the liberator pistol can be described as less "that'll show em" and more "you're gonna make em take away our rights". The liberator is the first gun made almost entirely out of 3D printed components [[note]]The only two parts that aren't 3D printed are the firing pin (a hobby store nail) and a block of metal that simply prevents the gun from being completely illegal to test by making it metal detector compliant[[/note]], and essentially functions as a single shot close range gun. Gun fans and 3D printers were worried that this development would cause the governments of the world to crack down on both industries, fears that weren't at all alleviated when a group of reports manged to get an (unloaded) liberator within throwing distance of the prime minster of Israel.
* In Spring 2016, Magazine/{{Playboy}}'s magazines stopped featuring nude photos due to the rampant upswing of Internet pornography making nudes passe. They were forced to backtrack after a year, however, because their sales tanked. Nude models are Playboy's main draw, love it or hate it; they're pretty much stuck with it.

* The insurance company Esurance abruptly discontinued their highly popular "Advertising/ErinEsurance" series of ads in 2010, in part because [[https://priceonomics.com/how-esurance-lost-its-mascot-to-the-internet/ people on the internet wouldn't stop making]] [[Rule34 porn of the character]].

* Being employed or volunteering in institutions that work with children (schools, churches, sports teams, entertainment centers for children).used to be as easy as filling out an application or sign up sheet. Thanks to abuse scandals, this is no longer the case. Most positions of this sort will now require lengthy background checks and training classes which can take months to process. In some cases it can even apply when the position doesn’t involve working with children, (such as serving refreshments after a church service).

** [[FantasyCounterpartCulture The]] [[ChristianityIsCatholic Chantry]] teaches that the [[{{God}} Maker]] preferred mortals to His first creation ([[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]), and watched over them from His [[{{Heaven}} Golden City]]... until a handful of [[TheEmpire Tevinter]] [[TheMagocracy magisters]] tried to invade His golden realm, and tainted it with their sin. Now the Golden City is the [[{{Hell}} Black City]], [[JustSoStory those magisters became the first]] [[OurOrcsAreDifferent darkspawn]] [[MysticalPlague that ravish the world]], and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere the Maker abandoned the mortal realm]]. This is why we can't have nice things.

* Ordering food on the Internet (whether take out or groceries) is extremely convenient, but some people have abused online ordering by ordering only one item, like a stick of gum or one serving of french fries. In order to save time and money being wasted, many establishments now impose a minimum delivery total.

* In Spring 2016, Magazine/{{Playboy}}'s magazines stopped featuring nude photos due to the rampant upswing of Internet pornography making nudes passe.

* The point of Creator/AynRand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''. Only instead of the selfish people being villains, it's the unselfish. It plays out like this, all the great inventors of the story have had socialist types try to restrict how they spent their inventions, or force them to share profits with those who did no work. What do they do? [[spoiler: They ''leave'', letting those people try to run things without them.]]
** [[spoiler: Except they don't ''just'' leave, they take everything they built with them. They designed the railroads, the factories, everything we need for civilization, and they destroy it when they leave. No, the villains of the story are the selfish people. ]]
*** [[spoiler: Except for mining and petroleum operations, everything was pretty much left in place. The point Rand makes is that except for the most basic skills, it's the critical mind that makes industry go.]]

* In “Team Homer” Bart wears a shirt with the words “Down with Homework”, leashing to chaos in Springfield Elementary. As a result, Principal Skinner creates a school uniform to the detriment of the student body. In one sequence, military-like marching can be seen and heard.

* Depending on your definition of what a "nice thing" entails, the U.S. State Department has decided to ban all Americans from [[BileFascination traveling as tourists]] to NorthKorea following the death of [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/06/19/otto-warmbier-dies-days-after-release-from-north-korean-detainment/ Otto Warmbier in June of 2017.]] Warmbier had been traveling with a tourist group, when he allegedly decided to take down a propaganda poster in his hotel room, [[FelonyMisdemeanor a crime that earned him a 15-year hard labor sentence in early 2016]] [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife and ultimately cost him his life.]]

** This is also what happened to Website/Usenet, which counts as one of the first ''internet'' social media or discussion sites.[[note]]Social media was actually born in the 1970s with the PLATO computer network, and continued into the 1980s with BBS systems like the still-existing [[https://www.well.com/ WELL]] and [[https://www.echonyc.com/ Echo]], New York's "virtual salon".[[/note]] Usenet was once accessible through any computer and you could set your email client to subscribe to and download your favorite newsgroups. It was an extremely useful service for uncensored discussions of all kinds for free. Ripped-off binaries, child pornography, pirated material and other illegally encoded stuff caused most internet providers to stop Usenet service. Usenet was bought by Google and is now called Google Groups, a mere shadow of its former vibrant self. Other services allow you to access Usenet via paid subscription.

* {{Tumblr}} was no stranger to pornography, but the site did very little about it since for the most part, there was no harm to it. Thanks to the people who used Tumblr to upload child pornography and related material, Google and Apple banned the Tumblr app from their storefront and in the end of 2018, Tumblr prohibited pornography of all kinds. The ban on porn also harmed many artists who made a living selling nude art and/or pornographic art and even non porn artists had their works tagged as pornography by Tumblr's algorithms. The changed cause many people to do a mass logout protests while others [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere deleted their Tumblr accounts.]]

** Pornhub had a similar situation to Tumblr. After it came to light that a lot of the anonymous user-submitted content featured pedophilia and human trafficking victims there was basically no way to sort it out and they nuked everything but verified accounts.

* Conflicts like UsefulNotes/WorldWarII left a lot of this kind of thing.

* Speaking of schools, many high schools used to allow students who drove to get off campus lunch as long as they arrived on time for their next class. This led to problems like cutting class, car accidents, and bringing contraband onto school grounds. Furthermore, school violence and drug issues make violations of said bans a much larger deal than it would have otherwise been. The offenders will often have their car (and themselves) searched thoroughly and will be interrogated by school officials about their whereabouts.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E2ALeafInTheWind A Leaf in the Wind]]", in a fit of frustration, Korra blows up a 2000-year old device for teaching airbending. [[OldMaster Tenzin]] is appropriately horrified.

Being employed or volunteering in institutions that work with children (schools, churches, sports teams, entertainment centers for children).used to be as easy as filling out an application or sign up sheet. Thanks to abuse scandals, this is no longer the case. Most positions of this sort will now require lengthy background checks and training classes which can take months to process. In some cases it can even apply when the position doesn’t involve working with children, (such as serving refreshments after a church service).