Did the Roman Catholic Church attempt (through government/university influence) to ban publication of Protestant Literature in the early 1500s?

I am merely seeking validation, or otherwise, on an article appearing on Reddit/Ask Historians, regarding the '*Index Librorum Prohibitorum*'. This came to attention recently as Elon Musk has called for a 'Moratorium' on research into Artificial Intelligence and some have likened this step to a similar, supposed, historical event. Is this article factual, or not ? Did the Roman Catholic Church seek to prohibit the publication of Protestant literature, by influencing University and Government powers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries ? >When the Catholic Church realised that the printing press was being used to proliferate Protestant literature, their response wasn't to ban the printing press, it was to ban printers from publishing heretical texts. Their response to this new technology was not to ban the technology, it was to ban the use of the technology for - in their view - nefarious and dangerous purposes. Local governments and the church would issue an *Index Librorum Prohibitorum* (Index of Prohibited Books) that publishers were not allowed to print. For example, King Henry II of France issued the Edict of Châteaubriant in 1551 to suppress Protestantism, and among its terms were that publishers had to adhere to the *Index Librorum Prohibitorum* maintained by the faculty of the University of Paris, and the University of Paris was permitted to inspect publishers twice a year to check for breaches of the *Index Librorum Prohibitorum.* They had nothing against the printing press itself - they were happy to use it to proliferate their own literature - but they took issue with what it was being used for. > >Chartier, Roger, ed. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe. Princeton University Press, 2014. > >Meserve, Margaret. "The Papacy, Power, and Print: The Publication of Papal Decrees in the First Fifty Years of Printing." Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800). Brill, 2021. 259-299. > >Sachet, Paolo. Publishing for the Popes: The Cultural Policy of the Catholic Church towards Printing in Sixteenth-Century Rome. PhD Diss. University of London, 2015. Reddit - Ask Historians - Catholic Church : "6 month Moratorium" It would seem to me that, if this is historically true, then it says a lot about the development of the Roman Catholic Church in history if, at that time, as is alleged, it deliberately aligned itself with government and academia to censor the conscientious exposition of scripture towards a true apprehension of God through his Son, Jesus Christ.