> "We also made the decision to not move forward with the proposed talk which - rather than bringing our community together and raising awareness - was creating

> "We also made the decision to not move forward with the proposed talk which - rather than bringing our community together and raising awareness - was creating division and rancour," the spokesperson further said. Google publicly defending this decision via an official spokesperson, rather than apologizing and backtracking, makes me think that someone close to the top is personally bothered by the content of the talk. It seems like it would be easy for leadership to brush off complaints about it from further down the chain.