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> If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired?

No, but I think they'd similarly be fired if they had written an anti-union popup. (Indeed, if someone wrote an anti-union popup and weren't fired for it, I expect that would itself have made the news as a "Google hates unions" story.)

> "If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? "

Yes, immediately and for cause. Internal business apps at large companies are not your personal playground.

>If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired?

Yes I do. 100%.

>put in place a better review process,

This is your solution? The process was intentionally lax so that you wouldn't have too much red-tape when soliciting contributions. The assumption was that this wouldn't be abused by your Security engineers(!!). Your solution to this is to make the process more onerous because one individual couldn't behave like an adult? How about you keep the process as is and you fire the individual who couldn't differentiate activism from security work.