This article is conflating whistleblowing with leaking internal product information. The latter should not be done and Google seems to have implemented a means to curb it.
Now if the system is actually being used to curb whistleblowing as well then we have a problem. But nothing the article states even remotely indicates that this is indeed how the system is being misused.
Now if the system is actually being used to curb whistleblowing as well then we have a problem. But nothing the article states even remotely indicates that this is indeed how the system is being misused.