Booksellers protested, and the following year John Milton published Areopagitica, a foundational statement of our modern philosophy of the right to free expression.

The Committee issued a revised travel ban list on 20 September 2004, which was subsequently communicated to all States by note verbale and published as a press release of the Security Council (SC 8192).

Their best intellectual arguments derived from Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and Robert Nozick, who sought to challenge collectivist theories of society in general and socialism in particular.