距今近400年前的1644年，约翰·弥尔顿发表了谴责议会审核抑制批评出版物的文章论出版自由。
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1644, John Milton published his Areopagitica, an essay denouncing a measure in Parliament for licensing the press that was intended, among other things, to suppress libelous publications.