I wonder all this me too. This whole discussion is weird, to me, not knowing what triggered everything in the first place.
> Cryptocurrency start-up Coinbase recently sought to restrict political speech by employees, a move many interpreted as a shift to the right because it came in reaction to internal discussions of Black Lives Matter.
That makes it sound like the Coinbase thing is less about the company holding a public political position, and more of a "leave your politics at home" thing.
Sounds like the corporate version of the recurring debate about whether open source projects should reject contributions from those with objectionable political views.