Hilarious
It's quite amusing how Yahoo shut its comment sections down across the board for months, then proceeded to sporadically open and close comment sections for entertainment articles, all the while announcing their intention to designate staff members to police what is being said. Everyone knows that Yahoo never had the intention of creating a safe space for its users in the first place, only that they desperately want to control what people are saying about crime and/or political topics. Why? Because the opinions are typically the polar opposite of how they want people to feel about a given article. Yahoo's staff also knows they can't control everything that's being discussed on every story they post, so they don't know how to approach it. If this is their sole motivation for creating an airtight comments section, why even bring it back at all? Discourse is the lifeblood of any healthy society, and there will be trolls, but by silencing everyone, it just convinces everyone on both sides of the same issue that Yahoo is, and has always been, the problem.
Devan Gill
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