Banning Comment Sections On Certain Websites

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Two that spring to mind are Yahoo! News and Amazon. Yahoo! News has stopped people from commenting on ANY news item on their site. They conducted a little survey a while back, giving us multiple choice for our answers, and the result of all that has meant that - for months now, it has banned comments 'for the well-being of their users' or words to that effect. What are your thoughts on this? I find it terrible, actually. Free speech should not be suppressed in this way and I tend to find that the 'idiots' are found out anyway by fellow commenters. I am amazed that Amazon does not allow REPLIES to reviews anymore. For example, I dug out my UFO live 'Strangers in the Night' LP as a response to someone reviewing a newer multiple CD set of this which has ALL the concerts UFO undertook on their tour of the US. I wanted to thank the reviewer for 'inspiring me' to play my UFO LP and remembering the memories that brought back for me when I first played it. I was mortified that I could not make a comment. Obviously, I could still use the 'thumbs up' button but I find it frustrating that the majority are being punished due to others being - well, 'd!cks' is the word that springs to mind! What are your thoughts on people being banned from Twitter and Facebook? I don't agree with that either. I rather miss Trump's ramblings!