It's pretty easy to dunk on people when you divorce their words from the surrounding context.
This statement was within the context of advising organizational leaders who are trying to "keep the peace" (and thus, inadvertently enabling distraction and morale rot) instead of creating clarity and focusing the mission.
That's exactly what the parent commenter is saying: that this principle apparently holds true unless it's in the context of certain things that Coinbase doesn't want its employees talking about.
This statement was within the context of advising organizational leaders who are trying to "keep the peace" (and thus, inadvertently enabling distraction and morale rot) instead of creating clarity and focusing the mission.