I can understand why the Publick Occurences newspaper was shut down, but I don't think it should be shut down for criticizing the government. I think that would be like the government killing off people who had any opinion that oposed their own ideas. I think that the old newspapers had a good idea where when you're done with a newspaper, you right your own opinions or story and pass it onto the next reader, much like how comments work on blogs and other news sources on websites today. I was actually really surprised they did this because today our newspapers don't have the "comments" section. You would think that a comments section would have came afterwards.
The other thing is that most newspapers today are critical towards the government but still are allowed to be published. I think this is because if the government shut down a newspaper today, no one would ever hear the end of it because it would cause a backlash worse than the effect the newspaper would have on them. In conclusion, I don't think that it was fair for the Publick Occurences paper to be shut down and if it happened today, it would possibly be a bigger deal.
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