What was the best way to spread information? Everything from news, gossip, and emergencies
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to give you a historical example:
>On **16 February 1568**, a sentence by the Pope of Rome and the Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death as heretics.
>A proclamation by the King of Spain, **dated only 10 days later**, confirmed this decree to the Inquisition, and ordered all Spanish occupying troops to start carrying out instant executions, *”regardless of age, sex or condition”*.
>**Within 18 days**, the Pope’s verdict traveled *from Rome via Madrid to The Netherlands* and three million people, men, women and children, were sentenced to DEATH (in three lines of text).
>The first executions started **MARCH 5, 1568**
(distance by road about 3500 km / 2200 miles)
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