Original sentence: Clearly, many influences from the outside world influence people's minds, such as advertising, media manipulation, and propaganda.For example,  some persons have claimed a "brainwashing defense" for crimes committed while purportedly under mind control (see Patty Hearst) or may sue their erstwhile captors after escaping from either a "cult" (religious mind controller) or "deprogrammer" (anti-religious mind controller).Mind control theories are based on the premise that an outside source can control an individual's  thinking, behavior or consciousness.Such theories have ethical and legal implications
Edited sentence: All mind control theories are based on the premise that an outside source can control an individual's  thinking, behavior or consciousness.Clearly, many influences from the outside world influence people's minds, such as advertising, media manipulation, and propaganda; however, people generally have a degree of conscious awareness of such influences.For example,  some persons have claimed a "brainwashing defence" for crimes committed while purportedly under mind control (see Patty Hearst) or may sue their erstwhile captors after escaping from either a "cult" (religious mind controller) or "deprogrammer" (anti-religious mind controller).Many of these opponents advocate deprogramming as necessary to "free" the victim of a cult from mind control.Opponents of deprogramming generally regard it as an even worse violation of personal autonomy than any (possible) loss of personal freedom attributable to the allegedly deceptive recruiting tactics of new religions.Opponents of some new religious movements accused so-called "cult"s of coercing recruits to join (and members to remain) via strong influence acquired and maintained by manipulation (see also anti-cult movement and Christian countercult movement).Some theorists maintain that merely by "milieu control" or censoring all information that might dissuade belief a group of manipulators may take control of a the mind of a person who is otherwise free to end his association with the group (see especially Steve Hassan and Flo Conway).Such theories have important ethical and legal implications.These opponents complain that targets of deprogramming are (1) victims of deception, (2) denied due process and (3) forced to endure more intense manipulation by their supposed rescuers than they encountered during their previous group membership