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by indymike 1393 days ago
So basically meh, they'll torture him anyway?
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If we're starting from the assumption that the government is posting false tweets that it'll use as excuses to kidnap and torture people, then I don't see what effect removing those tweets would have. A person under a real threat of violence needs real, physical protection. Anything that can be done over the Internet is insufficient.
It removes pretext used for justification of seizure and torture. Doing nothing enables the oppressor in this case.
>because the government could just as easily use a different medium for the same purpose