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"Here, take all this money and be quiet about everything we do". That's not how a healthy society works.

Google are sponsoring Code Club not because they're good guys, but because they have some business interest in it.

They must be accountable for their actions, good or bad. Linda Sandvik expressed her believes as a person and she did great not accepting being silenced just because she was hurting the feelings of a big company.

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"because they have some business interest in it."

The business interest might be conveying a positive image of Google. So using the code club as a vehicle to paint a bad image of Google would be detrimental to the business interest. Why then should they pour more money into it?

AFAIK, you can express your believes as a person and don't need an endorse of your volunteer group.

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