Want to preserve free speech? Create a culture that demands it

This week, it surfaced that a senior Facebook engineer, Brian Amerige, had posted a memo on Facebook’s internal message board titled “We Have a Problem with Political Diversity.”

That memo, obtained by the New York Times, has added to the already ongoing discussion about the liberal bias of Silicon Valley. It also highlighted something that is often lost in the debate on free speech and diversity of opinion: It comes down to what people want from their culture — in their workplace, campus, or country.