The stamp act was an act passed by the British parliament. The act placed a tax on every piece of printed paper. This made it very hard to share news threw letters or newspapers. But also they taxed ship papers, trading documentations, licenses, legal documents, and even play cards.
The action that is most closely associated with totalitarian governments is (3) engaging in censorship and propaganda campaigns. A totalitarian government controls all aspect of public and private life in the country over which they rule. Examples of governments like this were the Nazi Regime, Italian Fascism and Soviet Communist Rule.
