Censorship and SEO

Reading stuff like this really annoys me. You say something like DaveN did and sure enough, Matt emails the twitter people and they bow down immediately and submit to Google's wishes. Dave's comment regarding the twitter links was pretty blatant I must say, and I am not surprised that it had consequences. But this is simply a reminder that everything you put on Sphinn will be subject to Google's scrutiny. Freedom of speech is something that does not exist in SEO. You say what you say to the people, but you're REALLY talking to the Google engineers who may read what you write.
It also explains the vast amount of garbage search engine optimizers put out there and the fact that real info cannot be found on public places.