Should the government use censorship during a time of war.?
There are several things which are known as Essential Elements of Friendly Information. Things like how effective an enemy attack was on our forces, where our forces are moving to establish contact with the enemy, etc. You can also include ship and troop movements in that list. Those should not be made public. The easiest way to convince you would be an instance where one of those elements was revealed to the public and one of your loved ones died as a result of that action. Then, after the funeral, you would be writing a scathing letter to the editor of your local newspapers demanding to know why we aren’t using censorship during this time of war, instead of feeding the voyeur gene of all the folks gathered at the local Starbucks!
