Several girls in the ninth-grade class at a small private school maintained an online journal. in this journal, some negative comments about the school were made, and the principal made them discontinue this online journal. the principal was concerned because anybody can read these comments as long as they know the address. personalized online journals where people and organizations can keep a running dialogue such as the one illustrated here are known as

Personalized online journals where people and organizations can keep a running dialogue such as the one illustrated here are known as Blogs.

Explanation:

Blogs are websites that contains discussion or informational publishes; they can be individual or managed by small groups, as in the example, with the writing of multiple authors. Blogs are often used as journals, they combine digital images, texts, links to other web pages, etc. They are in general very customizable. It is also possible to the readers to interact by leaving and responding to comments; if the comments section have negative or offensive comments, it is possible for the blog owners to moderate and filter them.

classical republicanism, also known as civic humanism, is a form of republicanism  developed in the renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of  classical  antiquity, especially such  classical  writers as aristotle, polybius, and cicero.