Google reportedly promises change to research team after high-profile firings (arstechnica.com)

I submitted this because I found the content of the paper which led to Timnit Gebru’s exit remarkably non-controversial:http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parr...

Reading the paper, does anyone see any reason why there would be a legitimate reason why someone would move to block submitting it for publication?