In March of 1984, the Taiwan Garrison Command charged the supplement with "disseminating Communist propaganda" and banned its publication on a day when it attempted to publish "The Evil Spirits of Politics" by Lin Junyi, chairman of the biology department at Tunghai University.
1984 年 3 月，「自立副刊」因刊登東海大學生物系主任林俊義教授所寫〈政治的邪靈〉，被警備總部以「為匪宣傳」罪名查禁，當天的副刊剛印出便全數被抽出正刊之外。