Weitgehende Aufhebung der Zensur durch Joseph II. 1780:
Joseph II largely suspended censorship in 1780 and gave orders that ‘criticism, as long as it is not libellous, should be allowed to find any mark it wants, from ruler to subject’, if the author ‘is willing to publish his name and therefore stands as guarantor for the truth of what he has written’.
Quoted from Vocelka, Karl: Glanz und Untergang der höfischen Welt. Repräsentation, Reform und Reaktion im habsburgischen Vielvölkerstaat, Vienna 2004 (Österreichische Geschichte 1699–1815), 254.
