In 1759, Pope Clement XIII ordered the owners of a book to hand their copies to a priest for burning. The penalty for refusal was excommunication. That same year, King Louis XV of France banned the book outright.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/when-gatekeepers-panic-the-encyclopedie-open-ai-models-and-the-politics-of-accessible-knowledge-37pd)