Laws are temporary opinions that vary arbitrarily across jurisdictional boundaries. As an international service, Twitter needs a more universal basis for accept

Laws are temporary opinions that vary arbitrarily across jurisdictional boundaries. As an international service, Twitter needs a more universal basis for acceptable behavior than the laws of any single country. Such a basis exists for old-fashioned wars between sovereign states, and for crime and police activity. At least as far as Western countries are concerned. With "terrorists", "heathens", and "heretics", things become ambiguous. Whatever Twitter chooses to do, it becomes political in an ugly way.