Over the next decade, the mass media in Taiwan saw a few more sparks of light, but each was snuffed out, and each time the light grew weaker. In 1965 Wen Hsing magazine was banned, and in 1968 Po Yang was imprisoned. In 1970, two leftist overseas Chinese newspaper publishers living and writing in the Philippines were extradited to Taiwan and sentenced to three years of re-education.
接下來的十年，台灣言論界更是動輒得咎，一片漆黑，偶然繁星閃爍，幾許異聲，卻在一次又一次的打壓聲下越來越弱﹘﹘民國五十四年文星雜誌停刊；民國五十七年柏楊被捕，判刑十二年；民國五十九年，被菲律賓政府遣返的左傾華僑報人于長庚、于長城兄弟，判感化教育三年。