This wasn't downvoted because of a lack of political alignment; it was downvoted because there's absolutely no link. The post implies a causal link, but there

This wasn't downvoted because of a lack of political alignment; it was downvoted because there's absolutely no link. The post implies a causal link, but there isn't even a correlational one; Google has been shuttering its own projects only a couple of years after launch for years, long before the current round of employee protests.