History BannedInChina / UnitedStates

* The {{Yiff}} art website [=e621=] has blocked access in North Carolina on December 31st, 2023.

* Several episodes of the Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' never aired in the States:

* The US state of Montana [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Montana will ban]] the video-sharing website Platform/{{TikTok}} beginning in January 2024.

* From 2001 to 2004, Creator/{{ABC}} was known for broadcasting ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' nearly uncut on Veterans Day with a TV-MA rating. However, in 2004, in the wake of the Super Bowl WardrobeMalfunction and the FCC's shifting stance towards indecent content on broadcast TV, 65 individual ABC affiliates refused to air the film out of fear that the FCC could fine them over its content. Although ABC offered to cover any fines issued to affiliates on their behalf, the FCC ultimately received no complaints at all. The MoralGuardians even praised ABC's decision to continue airing ''Saving Private Ryan'', because after all, it is a patriotic film. That said, ABC has never aired the film since and future airings have been relegated to cable where standards are more lenient compared to broadcast TV.

* In 2022 Duval County, Florida banned one-hundred and seventy-six individual books from schools in accordance with Ron [=DeSantis=]'s new rules, for containing characters that aren't white Christians, or/and are queer (though the banned Literature/TheBerenstainBears book is a Christian book and a few others also have animals as their characters). This includes child reading level appropriate biographies of UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman and Malala Yousafzai, ''Literature/BrotherEagleSisterSky'', and bans any books with even alluded to queer characters as pornography. Apparently wearing the "wrong" shirt for your assigned gender or implying a kid has two moms is pornographic in Florida.
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* The US state of Montana [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Montana will ban]] the video-sharing website Website/{{TikTok}} beginning in January 2024.

* Art Spiegelman's ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', a MatureAnimalStory about the author's father's life as a Holocaust survivor, was banned by Tennessee's [=McMinn=] County school board in January 2022. The Board cited nudity and strong language as reasons for banning the book, but [[https://www.cbr.com/tennessee-school-board-bans-maus/ the decision led to a lot of controversy and accusations of thinly-disguised antisemitism]], especially given that it happened amidst a moral panic targeting literature with anti-racism [[AnAesop Aesops]]. It also led to renewed interest in ''Maus'' that [[StreisandEffect caused the graphic novel to become popular enough to sell out on Amazon]][[note]]For what it's worth, Spiegelman himself has stressed that the graphic novel is absolutely ''not'' for children, not because of any nudity or language, but because — [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids animal characters aside]] — it's [[NightmareFuel a raw and completely unsanitized]] account of The Holocaust[[/note]].

* Due to the infamous "chicken tax" [[labelnote:Context]] A 25% tariff levied against imported light pickup trucks. The name comes from the fact that it was created in retaliation to European tariffs on U.S. chicken exports which cratered chicken prices there. Prior to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, chicken was an expensive luxury food, and still was in Europe in the 1960's, but had begun large-scale production in the U.S. following the war, itself a consequence of meat rations during the war. The tariff originally also included brandy, dextrose, and potato starch, but these were later dropped.[[/labelnote]]imposed on imported commercial vehicles since the 1960s, non-domestic, imported pickup trucks are non-existent in the US, with manufacturers [[LoopholeAbuse trying to circumvent the law by having their vehicles built there]]. This paved the way for American-specific pickup trucks from foreign companies such as Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Titan, though some recent pickup trucks (such as Ford Ranger) are [[CompositeCharacter now the same vehicle designs as the international models]].

* The city of San Francisco temporarily banned the Music/{{Lorde}} song "Royals" in October 2014, due to the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball San Francisco Giants]] [[SeriousBusiness playing the Kansas City Royals in the World Series.]] Kansas City, on the other hand, played the song every hour on the day of Game 1.

* In 1973, Music/{{Redbone}} released "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee", a song about the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by the 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1890. Also in 1973 Oglala Lakota activists and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota to demand that the US government comply with 19th and 20th century treaties. Several radio stations in the US banned that song. However, it charted in several European countries and it topped the Belgian and Dutch music charts.

* Due to the infamous "chicken tax" [[labelnote:Context]] A 25% tariff levied against imported light pickup trucks. The name comes from the fact that it was created in retaliation to European tariffs on U.S. chicken exports which cratered chicken prices there. Prior to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, chicken was an expensive luxury food, and still was in Eurpoe in the 1960's, but had begun large-scale production in the U.S. following the war, itself a consequence of meat rations during the war. The tariff originally also included brandy, dextrose and potato starch, but these were later dropped. [[/labelnote]]imposed on imported commercial vehicles since the 1960s, non-domestic, imported pickup trucks are non-existent in the US, with manufacturers [[LoopholeAbuse trying to circumvent the law by having their vehicles built there]]. This paved the way for American-specific pickup trucks from foreign companies such as Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Titan, though some recent pickup trucks (such as Ford Ranger) are [[CompositeCharacter now the same vehicle designs as the international models]].

* Art Spiegelman's ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', a MatureAnimalStory about the author's father's life as a Holocaust survivor, was banned by Tennessee's [=McMinn=] County school board in January 2022. The Board cited nudity and strong language as reasons for banning the book, but [[https://www.cbr.com/tennessee-school-board-bans-maus/ the decision led to a lot of controversy and accusations of thinly-disguised antisemitism]], especially given that it happened amidst a moral panic targeting literature with anti-racism [[AnAesop Aesops]]. It also led to renewed interest in ''Maus'' that [[StreisandEffect caused the graphic novel to become popular enough to sell out on Amazon]][[note]]For what it's worth, Spiegelman himself has stressed that the graphic novel is absolutely ''not'' for children, but because --animal characters aside-- it's a raw and completely unsanitized account of The Holocaust, not because of any nudity or language[[/note]].

* Due to its longtime NoExportForYou status, a persistent rumor claimed that the film adaptation of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' had been banned in the US due to the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre. While there never was an official ban in place (as noted above, America doesn't have a CensorshipBureau capable of banning films[[note]]Congress did mull creating one because of the perceived lewdness in films, a series of celebrity scandals (notably Creator/FattyArbuckle), and the ensuing media circus that rocked Hollywood in the 1920s. Even before this, the ''Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio'' decision essentially stated that movies are not subject to First Amendment protections as they lacked artistic merit, while several states and cities created their own censorship boards. To prevent government censorship, Hollywood opted for self-regulation via UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, ostensibly proving to Congress that the movie studios "cleaned up" their act[[/note]]), with the original novel and the manga adaptation both being translated and published stateside, squeamishness over the film's subject matter did cause many American distributors to back off from it out of fear of a backlash. [[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54255 Reportedly]], when Creator/{{Toei|Company}} screened the film in 2005 for the lawyers of a prospective American distributor, they were warned that they'd go to prison for releasing it, and so they created [[SnipeHunt a series of ridiculous conditions]][[note]]Namely, they demanded that the film be given a wide theatrical release with an advertising campaign to match -- something that virtually ''no'' foreign film, let alone one violent enough to qualify for an NC-17 rating, receives in the Hollywood-dominated US market.[[/note]] in order to dissuade potential distributors and avoid any headaches from American MoralGuardians (the film having already been controversial enough in its native Japan, with its lack of school shootings). An American remake of the film was briefly discussed, but fell into DevelopmentHell after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. It wouldn't be until 2012, when the success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' demonstrated that one would be able to sell a story about teenagers murdering each other [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents following the aftermath of Columbine]], that Anchor Bay Entertainment got Toei to soften its stance and gave the film an American release.

Since about the 1960s and 1970s, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts U.S. federal courts]] have been fairly consistent in interpreting the First Amendment as, essentially, a blanket prohibition on banning anything that isn't real kiddie porn or snuff films, on the basis of its content. This means that when some piece of media is "banned" in the United States, it usually means that whoever owns the copyright has voluntarily ceased distributing it or that outlets like retail stores, theaters, or public libraries have refused to make it available to the public.

* ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' got banned from a few high schools in the US (mainly in Texas), primarily over the sexual content. Creator/AnnetteCurtisKlause even had one mother call her to try and get the book removed from her daughter's school library. Klause [[http://www.mtv.com/news/1944296/banned-books-week-annette-curtis-klause/ recalled]] finding it strange that the thing the mother most objected to wasn't the graphic violence present in the story, but teens talking about and engaging in sexual behavior.[[note]]for the record, the sexual content is pretty PG-13 and there aren't actually any sex scenes in the book[[/note]]

Since about the 1960s and 1970s, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts U.S. federal courts]] have been fairly consistent in interpreting the First Amendment as, essentially, a blanket prohibition on banning anything that isn't real kiddie porn or snuff films, on the basis of its content. This means that when some piece of media is "banned" in the United States, it usually means that [[Main/KeepCirculatingTheTapes whoever owns the copyright has voluntarily ceased distributing it or that outlets like retail stores, theaters, or public libraries have refused to make it available to the public]].

* Inverted with PornHub and the State of Virginia. PornHub actually blocked access in Virginia to protest against the age verification law that was put in place.

* The US state of Montana [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Montana banned]] video-sharing website Website/{{TikTok}} beginning in January 2024.

Since about the 1960s and 1970s, the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts U.S. federal courts]] have been fairly consistent in interpreting the First Amendment as, essentially, a blanket prohibition on banning anything that isn't kiddie porn[[note]]which, by the way, means ''actual, live-action'' kiddie porn: not animated or drawn[[/note]] on the basis of its content. This means that when some piece of media is "banned" in the United States, it usually means that [[Main/KeepCirculatingTheTapes whoever owns the copyright has voluntarily ceased distributing it or that outlets like retail stores, theaters, or public libraries have refused to make it available to the public]].

* The state of Virginia banned pornography site [=PornHub=] starting in June 2023.

* The state of Virginia banned pornography site PornHub starting in June 2023.