v1 · embedding eigenbasis · axis 48
ban · public · report · warn · film · elect
ban, public, report, warn, film, elect, law, media, publish, journalist, tax, author, newspap, prison, cultur, record, fire, poll, pension, risk, world, sale, art, scandal
dominant in 9797 stories · variance scale 0.0025
Energy by year
1999 → 2026
Human sections of its stories
| Section (Wikipedia Current Events) | stories |
|---|
| Law and crime | 196 |
| Armed conflicts and attacks | 188 |
| Politics and elections | 117 |
| Arts and culture | 107 |
| Health and environment | 68 |
| Disasters and accidents | 66 |
| International relations | 65 |
| Business and economy | 64 |
The canon
The purest instances over the years: one story per episode, by coordinate on this axis.
| Date | Story | coord | energy |
|---|
| 2011-04-25 | The U.S. government "strongly condemns" international media outlets, specifically The New York Times, for publishing the files it had wanted to keep secret. | 0.29 | 0.7 |
| 2006-11-17 | Bestsellers banned in new Iranian censorship purge | 0.28 | 0.7 |
| 2020-08-29 | Istanbul reimposes a ban on indoor ceremonies, with the exception of weddings, in the wake of some rising infections. | 0.27 | 0.7 |
| 2011-07-01 | A Moscow court declares books and brochures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as "extremist", banning them from distribution in Russia. | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2010-08-11 | Indonesian government bans pornographic sites | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2021-08-27 | China bans celebrity rankings in bid to ‘rectify chaos in the fan community’ | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2017-12-11 | The Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia announces that it will lift a ban on commercial cinemas that has lasted more than three decades. | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2009-04-16 | Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2011-01-13 | A German pornographer is sentenced to four years imprisonment in Somaliland. | 0.26 | 0.7 |
| 2010-10-03 | International cultural experts attack the Italian government's policy of tolerating oversized advertisements on historic Venetian sights as being "probably illegal". They say it violates the city's UN | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2023-03-27 | France bans the use of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and other apps on government employees' phones due to concerns relating to insufficient data security measures. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2018-08-15 | The government of South Korea announces that it will ban 20,000 BMW vehicles following engine fires. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2001-01-17 | Report muddies the waters at France's spas | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2005-10-20 | Iran bans Hollywood movies | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2002-11-07 | Iran banned advertising of US products and an Iranian, believing a sorcerer had made him invisible, tried to rob a bank in Tehran. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2009-12-06 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom firmly warns newspaper editors in a letter to cease publication of personal pictures of the British Royal Family after years of being "hounded" by paparazzi. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2023-07-03 | Vietnam announces that it will ban the upcoming American film Barbie over a scene showing a map displaying the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, which Vietnam does not recognize. | 0.25 | 0.7 |
| 2014-02-14 | India and Penguin books ban the book The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger for "blasphemy". | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2007-05-22 | Fury at Turkish ban on bikini ads | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2010-03-02 | Iranian government bans critical media | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2010-07-26 | The United States government condemns the release of the files, calling it a "risk" and a threat to their security. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2005-02-17 | Politicians 'embarrassed' about the arts | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2013-09-17 | Job vacancy: luxury living executive to test 'audaciously opulent' things in life | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2020-03-17 | Iran bans the traditional Persian fire festival Chaharshanbe Suri. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2003-04-02 | The Iraqi Information Ministry bans Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite television from Baghdad. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2013-03-18 | Mayor Bloomberg seeks ban on New York's in-store cigarette displays | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2004-12-13 | France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'État, bans Hizbullah's al-Manar TV station on the grounds that it incites racial hatred and antisemitism. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2003-10-02 | Russian media warned under strict new law | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2020-10-08 | The largest Islamic mass organization Nahdlatul Ulama condemns the law as 'oppressive', and calls for judicial review. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 1999-05-07 | Priests told to ditch smart cars and luxury lifestyles | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2010-11-01 | State media in Burma warn against a boycott of the general election on Sunday, with the government threatening jail time for those encouraging a boycott. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 1999-04-09 | Indian press barons unite to see off 'cultural castrators' | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2004-05-22 | British censors ban nipple in European election film | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2008-11-14 | It's a crime to mime, China warns performers | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2004-05-24 | A fire consumes the Momart building in London, destroying works owned by several museums and collectors. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2018-07-08 | Iranian police arrest a number of users for posting illegal content on Instagram, including a famous blogger named Maedeh Hojabri. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2011-04-03 | Authorities ban the publication of the main opposition paper Al Wasat. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2024-12-28 | The Afghanistan's Taliban government bans windows overlooking to places "used by women", and says that existing ones should be blocked. | 0.24 | 0.7 |
| 2011-06-20 | U.S. magazine Foreign Policy releases its index of "failed states", with the editor labeling Somalia as an "unequivocably failed state". | 0.23 | 0.7 |
| 2018-02-02 | YouTube announces that YouTubers who make "egregious" content will be punished. Critics of the move call it censorship. | 0.23 | 0.7 |