I'll let the people who were censored by their government, and overthrew that government, tell you how important freedom of the press/speech REALLY is.

“For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”
George Washington

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”
John Adams

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
Benjamin Franklin

So...censoring the publics right to their opinion is simply betraying the public.
So...open it up. Find your balls, if you have any. Jump in, the waters fine.
I originally liked your product, until you decided to throttle/choke/censor public opinion. Actually, the comments were more entertaining than the articles.
For the love of all that's holy, IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, while people are sitting around with their thumbs in their ***** and their minds in neutral, be the mold breaker. Invite lively discussion and differing opinions.

Free press. Free speech. Try it some time.

Well, it seems MANY MANY MANY others have already beaten me to it...!!

As SOoooo many others before me have already stated...PLEASE BRING BACK the comments and thumbs up/down features. Before I continue you should know I've been with Yahoo for AT LEAST TWENTY years, my current DEFAULT personal email kadman59@yahoo.com was my FIRST-EVER personal email account and it remains my #1 personal account. With that said, my "relationship" with Yahoo is now in its THIRD DECADE but at the rate things are going it doesn't look like it will make it to a fourth. Yahoo has made MANY decisions over the decades I've been using its services and I have to say I've DISAGREED with a majority of them. Despite this, I've remained with Yahoo for reasons even I cannot explain. That said, I'd like to think there's perhaps a modicum of appreciation on Yahoo's part for MY loyalty to all things "YAHOO". And with this modicum of appreciation there's perhaps a "willingness" on Yahoo's part to "take to heart" what one of its longest "family" members has to say. As I recall there came a point in somewhat recent time where an increasing majority of the comments being posted under Yahoo News articles became RIFE with animus and outright HATRED. The DIVISION amongst our citizens this occurrence manifested, of our once "United" States of America, was both staggering and frightening! Even worse IMHO is the fact that despite your removal of the comments feature, this division has not only NOT lessened, it has increased. SO...if your hope in removing the comments feature was to stem this overwhelming tidal wave of division, it has failed. IF on the other hand you removed the comments feature for some purpose other than that which you purport it to be...what is it you're saying? "...in the interest of promoting communal harmony..."?, PLEASE DO TELL! Because as I've already said, we're even further away from community "harmony" than we were BEFORE you removed the comments feature. In fact, for this reason and many others as well, PLEASE bring back the comments feature! In bringing it back you WILL reap the benefit of bringing back MANY MANY MANY other "fellow" but now FORMER Yahoo-ers"...!

Respectfully and sincerely,

John Jarvis

Tyler Perry has donated $100,000 to the legal defense fund of Kenneth Walker, Walker’s girlfriend, Breonna Taylor, was fatally shot by plainclothes police officers in her Louisville, **. apartment on March 13. What they are not telling you is that Breonna and her boyfriend were selling drugs. Her boy friend had a second girlfriend who also sold drugs with him. He is caught on jail house phone calls telling his girlfriend that he only trusts Breonna to hold his money (drug) at her house the same house that officers did the search warrant on. When officer hit the house they announced them selves as police officers and the two began shooting at officers. Neither are as innocent as the media wants you to believe. This is why we need the comment section back. Freedom of speech is being held back here.

a Republican and this news cast where Sen Murphy slammed the reporter because all he wanted to do was talk about how horrible the GOP thinks Biden's immogration policy. Biden has been president for 60
days and he has not even had a chance to install his immigration policy.Trump was on an interview and I do not know why the impeached president is talking about a man he would not even declare
his presidency and incited his supporters to storm the Capitol and is
still saying that Pence should have stopped the election cerification. and you have a reporter asking for his opinion - WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE. Biden is still just trying to clean up
what Trump left behind at the border and someone is inciting people
from other countries to storm the border. I am not saying who or am
I accusing anyone but someone spurred this on so why don't you
people for the first time in a long long time really respect your country.
If this is what you want you do not deserve a country like this, To drag
this impeached president onto the internet so he can criticize his
actions - he has no right to do that-NONE. Fox News again should be
ashamed of themselves.