[pessimizer]

> Since the tweets may be used as an excuse to have him detained, removing them will do nothing, because the government could just as easily use a different medium for the same purpose.

This is nonsense. That's like letting someone use your gun to shoot someone because they'd be able to find a gun somewhere.

[fluoridation]

You're right, Twitter is a gun and tweets are bullets that kill. It's a perfectly apt analogy. /s