the.com/ban
The internet's death penalty, minus the permanence or the dignity.
means An order that forbids something or forcibly excludes someone, often issued from on high and enforced without much appeal.
from From Old English 'bannan,' to summon or proclaim, which traces back to a Germanic root tied to public proclamation — the same family that gave us 'banns' (the marriage announcement) and 'abandon.' The sense flipped over time: a word for publicly announcing something came to mean publicly announcing it forbidden, the proclamation curdling into a prohibition.
- origin
- from old norse for summons or proclamation
- irony
- banned things get louder, not quieter
- loophole
- alts were invented the same day bans were