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Both of them put Americans at risk for their own political ambitions.

Scooter Libby and Oliver North are cretins. Both of them put Americans at risk for their own political ambitions.

They actually got people killed,

White House Asking Americans Censored on Social Media to Share Their Stories

Americans Paid for the Internet, We Deserve Free Speech On It

The talking point that Google, Facebook and Twitter are private companies that can discriminate as they please on their private platforms, and that the First Amendment doesn’t apply, is in the air everywhere.

But it overlooks two very simple facts.

The driving force behind the censorship of conservatives isn’t a handful of tech tycoons. It’s elected officials. Senator Kamala Harris offered an example of that in a recent speech where she declared that she would "hold social media platforms accountable" if they contained "hate" or "misinformation".

“Misinformation” is a well-known euphemism among Democrats and the media for conservative political content. It was originally known as “fake news” before President Trump hijacked the term to refer to the media. The recent Poynter list of “unreliable” sites was stacked with conservative sites. Lists like these aren’t hypothetical. Poynter runs the International Fact Checking Network which had been empowered by Facebook and other sites to deplatform conservative content through its ‘fact checks’.

All of this got underway in response to claims by Hillary Clinton and her allies that “fake news” had cost her the election and represented a grave attack on our democracy. The call was quickly taken up by Democrats in the House and the Senate. It’s been commented on supportively by powerful Clinton allies in the tech industry, like Eric Schmidt, the former chairman of Google.

Your history is crap.

Ollie North violated Senate laws and gave aid and comfort to Nicaraguan guerillas suppoorters of the dictatorial Somosa

He dealt with the Iranians to get support for the Somoza forces and they outmaneuvered him to hell and back.

You don't know diddly about Latin America.

Don't talk about it.

The contras lost as they deserved to. They were another of the uber-authoritarian regimes that have plagued Latin America for the benefit of the small corrupt elites for generations.

Ortega won in the end, and the country did not turn communist.

Your whole premise is wrong, as usual.

And North was illegal.

Not a hero,

an inept cocksure fool supporting the corrupt murderous side.

And disobeying US law to do it.

NZ lives in peace, harmony, prosperity and democracy. They support their government's efforts to keep democracy vibrant. They don't have mass shootings. They don't go around killing people in houses of worship r schools or businesses. It takes an Aussie right wing fanatic to do that. They aren't comparable to the US because they're better at it than we are.

Olllie north remains a villain. The one heroic thing he ever did is expose the corruption and exploitation in the core group of leaders of the NRA