As a Massachusetts teen just chilling my life away ( literally bc theres a blizzard) i would have to say it was to make a puritan colony in the new world.
The puritans because they thought Shakespeare's play where abnormal and distracted people from working for the puritans. The puritans actually burned down the globe theatre.
The bill is passed in both the U.S. house of representatives and the U.S. senate and have all been approved by the president.
Freedom of press is important because it allows a person to talk about the government both positive and negatively without getting a punishment.
Example:
President John Adams once put out a law where if a citizen talks bad about the government they would be punished. That violated their rights of saying what they wanted.