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Quiz: Are these things banned in US or not?

America hates censorship. Except when censorship protects the values it holds dearest. Then that's ok. There's a kind of censorship relativism.

People have been banning things forever in the name of protection, and people have been arguing over the rights and freedoms restricted by bans forever - don't expect this trend to go away any time soon.

The debate around bans and censorship has been most recently revisited by President Barack Obama's calls for greater gun control, following the shootings in Oregon.

To provide some perspective, we thought we'd make a quiz to test your knowledge about the things currently banned in the US:

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