15 Things You Won't Believe Have Been Banned Around The World
"Hey, you with that time-travel machine, we'll have you locked up!"
Living in a free country makes it easy to take the little things for granted; watching people every day eat what they want to eat, wear what they want to wear, watch what they want to watch and read what they want to read can make us blissfully unaware that in some parts of the world chewing our favourite brand of gum could get us locked up. Crazy governmental bans on various things have always existed, but seem to have reached their zenith in the last decade. It may be attributed to technological growing pains that make it harder for some authoritative powers to keep their people on the straight and narrow. Like a double-edged sword, the internet is just as useful at enlightening us with knowledge as it is spreading lies about any number of subjects. What's certain is across the globe governments have been gunning for some really outrageous bans on some relatively harmless items and subjects. Most of these bans are rooted in illogical premises; however, even when the powers that be had their hearts in the right place, their proposed bans are still a little bizarre. Take a look at these fifteen examples, some of which include commonplace things we couldn't imagine life without.