The answer is (A) A good thesis is universally accepted.
No thesis can be universally accepted. Everybody has thier own views on things, and it would be immpossible to have a thesis that everybody agrees on!
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The word “scrutinized” suggests that the government is not just idly watching the movements of its citizens, it is actively looking and picking apart everything they do to watch for any sort of infraction. The word “watched” would have had a much less ominous, as well as less active, feeling.