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That's the usual trend.

Many magazines and online newspapers have suspended the comment section. Twitter and facebook are banning systematically anybody that says something politically incorrect or criticizes wokeness (last week, twitter decided to ban accounts that supported the theory that US deep state has been chasing Trump last years, which they call a "conspiracy theory", no kidding 😂). Blogs remain free, but they're almost impossible to be found on Google, Bing or Duckduckgo.

In a nutshell, they're controlling internet, and they're getting it. Main search engines are shadowbanning anything which is not controlled. And in the controlled sites, only official narrative is allowed.

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Deep State comments are garbage.
Didja know the nearest bridge in your community was built to fall apart?
The Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup last year, despite what anybody says.
Superman is too lazy to turn back time.
What the eff is reality for if we can't expect it to be right most of the time?
Deep State, like Antifa, is a fiction created to legitimize pubs desire to create an autocracy in the US.
Anyone who is pissed off at the government for obvious misdeeds is labelled a communist, marxist, etc., while the rich keep running away with all the wealth.
Hey, just suck it folks. It's reality, might as well make it easy on yourselves. Don't bitch.

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Sure. Antifa and Deep State are fictional, they don't exit. As you wish 😂😂😂😂

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They're part of the corrupt, dishonest MSM, and therefore should generally be ignored.

😎

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Who remembers Yahoo Serious?

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I remember Young Einstein, but that's all I've ever seen him in.

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Wimps

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Yep, just like Ajax said....

https://youtu.be/egZs0GJYNng

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That was the only reason I ever used Yahoo

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if you like to comment on news stories, you can use newser.com

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That explains why the comments on the article I was reading today weren't loading.

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Good idea by Yahoo. I hope comments are removed from more articles online. They seem to divide us more then anything.

Just report the news. Thats how things used to be.

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Ever read a Yahoo news story? Some of the worst writing in existence. I want to comment usually to belittle the low quality or, like the majority of the posters, challenge the bias. Silencing opposing voices is how this great experiment comes to a crashing end.

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When I read the comments I see people bicker back and forth.
It's not constructive. If you feel the articles by Yahoo are trash then quit reading them.

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If Yahoo can spread lies, division and non-news, then we should be able to do so as well in their comment section.

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Well it's their company so why should you tell them how to run their company?

And if you don't like it don't read it. Nobody is holding a gun to your head.

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They're offering a service to us, so why shouldn't we be able to tell them what we think???

You said it's a good thing to remove comment sections because they create division. But if Yahoo creates division, we can't even comment on it??? If you and Yahoo don't like the comments, then don't read them. Or is someone holding a gun to your head???

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Yahoo decides if they allow or don't allow comments. It's completely up to them. Yahoo reports news. If you choose to view this as creating division that's on you.

When u leave a comment on their articles, you are doing it on a Yahoo page. It's a private company, not a public service.

They can decide what they allow and don't allow.

Get over it.

And yes the comments are usually just people name calling and bickering. It's not constructive so imo it's good for them to disable them.

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Where did I say that Yahoo is NOT the one to decide if they allow comments or not? I'm just calling out the double standard and sensitivity to criticism.

If you choose to view internet comments by random strangers who aren't even a part of your as creating division that's on you. Maybe try to get over it yourself.

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You are whining that you can't leave a comment on a private companies medium. So if you already know it's not a right of yours why are u crying like a snowflake?

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I'm the one whining??? I replied to YOUR post in which you whined that the Yahoo comment section is too divisive and that people who don't like Yahoo just shouldn't read it. Hypocrite much???

If someone isn't happy with a product, it's only logical to voice that opinion. So grow up, crybaby.

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Yes, you are whining. I wasn't whining about it being divisive, I was simply giving my observation on the subject. Please grow up and move out of the basement.

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No, you were definitely whining. It's not simply an observation to say it's a good thing to remove comment sections and telling people who don't like Yahoo what to do. I simply replied to that pointing out Yahoo isn't uniting people either.

Lol, it's funny how you have such a problem with people bickering with each other in the Yahoo comment section, but you don't mind trying to throw insults at me over here. Please move out of your mother's bedroom.

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Because our reasoning for wanting to retain the comment section is far more fair and balanced than their reasoning for disabling it. Taking away EVERYONE'S right to comment all because of a few snowflakes is being way too hyper-sensitive to criticism. Which is one of the ills of society nowadays.

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Yes I agree the writing is terrible on Yahoo. Some of it even incomprehensible, as if the authors did not pass their classes in writing. Sometimes the way that statements are made in the articles make me wonder if the authors have any training in journalism. The bias in journalism now seems to be almost everywhere, not just limited to Yahoo.

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Infra-Yellow Journalism. A whole new color in the spectrum of bias peddling.

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I often find key facts in the comment section that should have been included within the story itself.

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Yep. Prohibiting discussion will surely unite us!

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It's not the comment sections it is most likely AI trollbots, Right-wing nuts, Russian and Chinese agents. Same thing here. I have been here since the beginning and before here was on IMDB,
but over all the time for every 100 comments I made I might have gotten just one good answer.

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It seems like comment sections have been gradually disappearing. Although in a way this is disappointing, I'm not sure it's as great a loss as it seems. Comment sections on news articles often seem to devolve into name-calling and trolling, all of which one has to wade through in order to find the few truly insightful comments. It was interesting to read comments that disagreed with the ideology of the article author, but sometimes patterns in the comments make you wonder how many of them are real and how many are bots. Occasionally I've seen comments that actually provide information that the article didn't provide, information that can only be provided by someone local to the situation. Those comments are worth having, but since you can't confirm their veracity they probably don't add sufficiently to the fact-finding we'd like to see.

Something that has happened in parallel to comment sections disappearing is that websites that used to be "free" (ie ad-supported) are moving to subscription models. This is bad for those of us who read a lot, but if it works then it may reverse the trend away from actual news reporting if people are willing to pay to subscribe to sites where journalists focus on finding the facts rather than shifting the narrative.

I do think that it's useful to have places where the rest of us can voice our opinions without gatekeeping by the powerful. It's concerning to me that some of the bigger and more powerful sites have deplatformed conservative voices. If voices from only one side are allowed to speak then I won't believe the truth is being told fairly.

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And many times comments wouldn't show up if you use certain words.

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Yeah ad supported "news" sites make everything clickbaity.

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This is how I feel too. Comments sections have become a cesspool of name calling and predictable gotchas. It's not constructive in any shape or form.

PBS disables comments for a lot of their youtube content as does 60 Minutes Australia and I'm happy they do.

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Yep. So now we will rely on them to get an idea of what the people think instead of finding out from the people. Surely Yahoo can be trusted to deliver balanced measures of public opinion.
True, it's Yahoo's call but it is interesting which ideology tries so hard to silence people.

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