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Violating SEO rules is bad and these sites should be removed that can be understood.

Is it good for the democracy if Google removes all results from new sites it doesn't agree with? It should remain neutral as much as possible and not tamper with its search results.

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This is not what's happening on Twitter. They're not removing tweets.

They are just using Trump's tweet to promote their own point of view.

> They are just using Trump's tweet to promote their own point of view.

Correction: they're using their own service to promote their own point of view.

I honestly think there are real issues with the public means of communication being privately owned by a smallish number of entities, but it does free expression no good to make the fight about letting lies, disinformation, and other forms of untruth to flow unimpeded.

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