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		andrethegiant on Sept 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coinbase offers exit package for employees not com... Forbidding the discussion of politics at work sounds a lot like Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I think Coinbase is on the wrong side of history here.

x3n0ph3n3 on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

Not quite -- he's rebounding from internal demands that he make particular political speech and seeing employees "walk out" when he didn't. None of the issues are relevant to Coinbase and its mission and he doesn't want that distraction in his company.

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