This isn't a "left or right" answer, this is a fact that EVERYONE needs to get together on and unify on this if you want to keep one of most basic fundamental AMERICAN core values.
The reason (at the core) Yahoo removed comments from "news" articles is that the powers that be, whether you believe they are liberal leaning, or conservative, want to stifle free speech.
THIS is part of an overall agenda that is propagating "conspiracy panic" which has increased 10-20 fold in being reported as "legitimate" news stories/topic since the beginning of the pandemic through a variety of media outlets (not just "news" but other entertainment outlets).
We heard a lot of that a few years back, but now they have reignited that fire with "legitimate" reasons to legitimize banning conspiracy theories by law due to possible "foreign tampering" "religious zealots recruitment" and numerous other reasons that are attempted to be legitimized by introducing them as "real world threats" "dangerous to society" etc. as introduced and reported in the media.
So banning conspiracy theories is a "good" thing right?
No, because when you ban "conspiracy theories" with the broad brush strokes that YOU KNOW the political puppets will attempt to do, then EVERYTHING that is a matter of opinion becomes a "conspiracy theory" if someone else agrees with it, or perhaps even if no one does.
While many people simply used the comments section of Yahoo news stories to lambaste opposing political parties, or those they thought were affiliated with them, SOME PEOPLE chose to comment with verifiable facts concerning hypocrisy in stories, among other things (ie. Asia Argento on her soapbox about Weinstein, while not only did she opportunisticly continue to engage in a 20 year relationship with her alleged "rapist" but it was also later disclosed she payed out to an underage male co-star in one of her films, to apparently stifle allegations against her of statutory rape, etc.).
This is how it happens.
Some can already see we are headed towards an Orwellian nightmare "future" under the guise of "protection" of various kinds since the 9-11 "terrorist" attacks, but make no mistake, stifling free speech is THE MOST EGREGIOUS ACT OF TERRORISM that we in those countries where our forefathers fought and DIED for the right to free speech, still take for granted as a given foundation of our very existence as a nation.
Many of you have read how swiftly China managed to stop free speech in Hong Kong.
Well, don't think there won't be a time in the not so distant future where they can do something similar here.
Our law makers (left and right) have already been working on it long before you started reading this and although they are separated by political parties, mainly for the purpose of dividing us (the people), the vast majority who are working behind the scenes to bring a totalitarian corporate rule to the (future) U.S.A. inc. are actually members of a single unified party known as the party of GREED.