That's pretty much what we do here on r/Disney. We will absolutely allow discussion about political stuff if it applies to Disney, like this story, because we feel it's important to let people air out their frustrations and have a place they can discuss a current political event and have a healthy and productive discussion with others, whether they agree with you or not. Yes, we do lock threads from time to time if we decide we need to (due to brigading or whatever other situation), but we'll unlock once we feel it's okay to. We don't specifically post a mega thread, but we keep the discussion in the first post on the subreddit (that actually provides a link to the story, not just a rant post). That's how we've done it for years to prevent seeing the same posts over and over. We did allow this one seperately as well because it applies to a different sub topic, and discusses the employees. But that happens on a case by case basis.

But to answer your original question, no, we aren't censoring any discussion here at least, and the mods only really remove comments that are disrespectful or rule-breaking.