It's disheartening to witness some of the arguments in this thread defending Google, saying that disallowing open source developers from linking to their Patreo

It's disheartening to witness some of the arguments in this thread defending Google, saying that disallowing open source developers from linking to their Patreon pages is a legal requirement, because Google is legally liable (while the rest of the internet apparently isn't) for the payments that may happen on Patreon by following those links.