This comes with the trade-off that we’ll no longer allow for every type of expression at work, but we think this is the right thing to do for the long-term health of our internal community.”Meta took a similar stance in June, when a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked.According to a document that the New York Times obtained at the time, Meta said that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment.”“We deeply value expression, open discussion and a company culture built on respect and inclusivity,” said Kadia Koroma, a Meta spokesperson, in an email to TechCrunch.“We’ve updated our employee expectations to provide direction around what is appropriate for our people in the workplace, so that we can reduce distractions while maintaining an environment that is respectful and inclusive and where people can do their best work.”Meta employees who are required to discuss these topics to do their jobs are exempt from the policies.“So going forward, as a company we will only make public statements on issues that are core to our business, meaning they are required in order to provide our service.”Coinbase took a similar approach in 2020, as CEO Brian Armstrong posted a culture memo stating that discussions of political issues and social causes were not allowed — if employees didn’t like it, they could take severance and leave.Even Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO and Bitcoin evangelist, spoke out against Coinbase’s anti-activism policy, writing that crypto is “direct activism against an unverifiable and exclusionary financial system which negatively affects so much of our society.” Dorsey said that Armstrong’s stance “leaves people behind.”At Meta, a company operating social media platforms that billions of people use every day, it’s hard to imagine that these banned topics won’t inevitably come up."