言論審查 Censorship

自1949年台灣戒嚴開始，國民政府以反共政府對人民生活上各層面的禁錮無所不在，而對於歌曲創作內容的直接施壓，以1950年省新聞處召集的台灣省歌曲影劇書刊審核查禁委員會第七次聯席會報最為明顯。 Following martial law in 1949, the Nationalist government exercised pervasive control over daily life. The most direct pressure on song content came in 1950, when the Taiwan Provincial Information Office convened its seventh joint session of the Committee for Song, Film, Drama, and Publication Review and Censorship.

內政部從1971年7月起，開始編印查禁歌曲手冊給各媒體。還新定了查禁免列日期文號和理由的條款，從此連歌是怎麼被禁的都不清不楚。 Starting in July 1971, the Ministry of the Interior began distributing a banned songs handbook to media outlets. A new provision eliminated the requirement to state the date, document number, or reason for a ban — making it impossible to know how or why any song had been prohibited.

1973年8月，新聞局鑒於流行歌曲的氾濫，特別成立了一個歌曲出版品輔導工作小組，11月，新聞局從警總的手中接管歌曲查禁的工作，由出版品出版小組來執行，嚴格審查淘汰「不良」歌曲。 In August 1973, the Government Information Office established a special task force for pop song publication guidance. In November, song censorship authority was transferred from military intelligence to the GIO's Publication Guidance Group, which assumed strict oversight of 'undesirable' songs.