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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Fair, but I would disagree.
I don't think that's a problem. Just use your best judgment. If the mod disagrees, they'll remove the post and we can all move on, no harm done.
Some US department making rules for journalist isn't a presidential election or 9/11 ... ridiculous comparison.
Sure. I personally think the rule is stupid and a community named "world news" shouldn't exclude a part of the world. But that's not how lemmy works.
If the people running this community want to have that rule they can and they can enforce it as they see fit. And removing this particular post is, in my opinion, way within a reasonable interpretation of that rule. So there is no power tripping.
... No harm done?
That post, the discussion was active and lively, many people wanted to see this, talk about it, upvoted it pretty darn fast, and then... removed, gone.
At least one commenter in that thread said that they hoped the overly stringent restrictions on what counts as a valid news source in that comm would be relaxed and not lead to the post being removed... ah, but, got removed for another reason I guess.
Sorry no.
World News on lemmy.world is the largest and most active lemmy news community, full stop.
It having dumb rules that are enforced arbitrarily by a controversial power tripping mod who is very often featured in this comm for a variety of indefensible bullshit is a big deal, in almost exactly the same way that journalists being restricted from reporting on government agencies/activities is.
Ok and here is where I just laugh at you.
Its not some random department.
It is the fucking Pentagon, the Department of ~~Defense~~ War.
The organization that controls the most wide reaching military on the planet, with over 120 bases in I think we are up to almost 50 different countries now.
If the Pentagon changes its rules to say 'you can only report what clears 100% through us', then thats almost 50 different countries that now lose a whole lot of journalistic access to what is going on or likely to go on in their country.
Beyond that, it also might be nice for say, Venzuelans, to be able to access US journos who have access to the Pentagon, to see if maybe their fishing boats are still gonna keep being blown up for no reason, or if the US is just gonna invade their whole country.
You... apparently do not have this... context in mind, when you act like there is no comparison to the other examples I gave, where you are here acting like literally the largest comm on lemmy is... just some little niche community?
As I already said, I think the rule is dumb as well. But a dumb rule existing isn't mods power tripping. This is just us not liking a rule.
And not sure what the size of the community matters. In fact, have you considered that it maybe got so big because it's the only one not full of US internal news? Some people might really like that.
I don't see it as big of a deal (other communities exist). But if you want to discuss the merit of the rule or the individual conduct of the moderators, that feels more like it should be a meta-post in the community itself.
This post here is about whether or not this specific mod action was warranted. And I still think it absolutely was.
Yes, everybody is aware how big and important America is. And yes, the current administration is speedrunning the one remaining superpower towards fascism, which is bad for all of the world. By that logic almost everything this administration does would be "world news". But that's obviously a silly way to look at it.
Its my post.
You don't get to piegon-hole frame my post.
This comm often serves as a place for such meta discussion, we can talk about related multiple things at the same time.
Or, well, maybe we can't, I guess, if you are apparently in charge of conversation framing here.
Anyway...
... who do you think writes the rules?
Are... are you serious right now?
Its the mods, in case you need a direct answer to that.
Yeah its for US based normie reddit refugees that by default land on lemmy.world, who want a US news vs not US dichotomy, its not actually primarily intended to have an actual global perspective, its intended to have a US centric, non-US News differentiation, because the vast majority of the lemmy.world user base is from the US, and that's whose being catered to.
This is an editorial approach that centers the US as the default given, and works from there.
It is not an editorial approach that attempts to consider what global or worldwide audiences from anywhere would find noteworthy and important.
Again, cool, neat rhetotical device, but we are not talking about anything the admin does, we are talking about things that do obviously have a direct impact on other countries, via, you know, aforementioned literally physically present military assets in up to 50 other countries, and how any one is to have any idea what they may or may not be doing.
... You sure do seem to talk and argue just like jordan, anyone ever said that to you before?
... who is us?
Who... what group are you referring to here?