It can be taken to be about sides/ideology when the cause of cancellation of certain high profile university's funding is over ideological / political disputes

It can be taken to be about sides/ideology when the cause of cancellation of certain high profile university's funding is over ideological / political disputes. TFA seems to say "This is important and we shouldn't cut general funding", but also goes on to call on industry, in particular large tech company CEOs to push back against ideologically driven funding cuts. That toes the line of calling for political responses.