In its 1999 review of press freedom around the world, the IPI praises the revocation of Taiwan's Publication Law as a major milestone for press freedom here. The law, the abolition of which was supported by the Government Information Office, had been in place since 1930, and was one of the remnants of martial law.
今年初國際新聞協會發表的「一九九八世界新聞自由回顧」中有關台灣的部分，開宗明義地指出，台灣在新聞局的建議下，由國會於一九九九年元月十三日（應為元月十二日）通過廢除了有七十年歷史、戒嚴時代殘留下來的出版法，是台灣走向新聞自由的重要里程碑。