When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.