Sure, but the terms of service cannot legally include such things as "You have political opinions we dislike" as a valid reason for terminating service.
Why would they? They are not providing a service for sharing opinions.
Twitter is a service for sharing your opinions with the public. Obviously terms of service are going to include limits around your ability to share your opinions. If the service had no terms, that would mean that you could post 1 million spam replies to every single tweet anyone made.
Similarly Twitter's TOS shouldn't include anything around electricity usage.
Which website contains “you have political opinions we dislike” as a valid reason for terminating service? Unless you are arguing that threats of violence are valid political opinions.
What's interesting is that this is a new manifestation of the free speech argument, from new social and political quarters. Prior to this version of the free speech debate, the defenders of free speech would, say, donate to ACLU, oppose laws that criminalize protests, express concern over authoritarian countries jailing reporters, oppose prosecution of whistleblowers, oppose consolidation of corporate media, etc.
But this new constituency emerged after events like Gamergate and Charlottesville protests, and they show up to defend participants in events like those but can't be mobilized to become active in other issues that historically have been ones where people become involved out of principle.
>such things as "You have political opinions we dislike"
If I wrote the rules, anytime someone used the phrase "political opinions you dislike" there would be a popup list for the following before you can submit your comment:
* violent incitement
* Al Qaeda and ISIS
* state sponsored misinformation campaigns run by automated bots
* coordinated messages from automated bots for marketing & brand management
* harassment
* doxxing
* defamation
* revenge porn & child porn
* vaccine misinformation
* election misinformation
* spam and phishing attacks
And next to each you can click a checkbox to indicate which ones you personally endorse being defended as protected speech, which you believe to be implicated. Then people can mouse over the part of your comment that says "political opinions", see the list of things you clicked on, and know what you are talking about.
This way we don't have to worry that you're equivocating between garden variety political topics (e.g. the economy, taxes) and all the other stuff when you say "political opinions you dislike."
