Aside from prohibiting political, religious and (so-called) sexual material, it also bans the transmission of stories that hold power to account.

Dartmouth specifically prohibits offensive material in a code that warns: "Obscenities should not be sent by computer nor stored where they could offend other users."

Administrators at Stuyvesant High School in New York view their filtering program as secondary to their acceptable-use policy, which prohibits obscene and offensive material.

In August 2012, it was decided television airing of the cartoons would not cut out scenes of the wolf smoking because of laws prohibiting material "deemed harmful to children".

The House Rules prohibit various things, including racism, "hard-core" swearing, spamming, flooding, "otherwise objectionable" material, and spitting.

Orthodox leaders in Parliament, denouncing the play as anti-Semitic, have tried to shut it down under a section of Israeli law prohibiting material that offends religious sensibilities.

Censorship is a legal term; it refers to government action prohibiting material from being circulated.

The posters, from a variety of candidates in a number of races, violated a law prohibiting the posting of any sign or printed material on city-owned property.

The license prohibits reverse engineering and material that is pornographic or otherwise "objectionable".

They prohibited women in undergarments, women raising their skirts, suggestive poses, kissing, necking, and other suggestive material.