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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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So, I made the same post of a Variety article covering how basically the entirety of US news agencies are refusing to comply with new Pentagon press standards, I posted this to multiple World/Global news comms on multiple instances...

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pentagon-pete-hegseth-press-rules-fox-news-cnn-refuse-to-sign-1236552784/

... and my post to World News on lemmy.world, with ~200 upvotes in ~6 hours, 20 comments, was locked and removed with reason "Internal US News", at midnight my local time...

https://lemmy.world/post/37359472

(removed)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55525545

(local mirror of same post)

... apparently the lemmy.world World News editorial team doesn't think it rises to the level of generally relevant to the entire world that basically all US media outlets (with the single exception of OAN, the most MAGA-culty news outlet) are unifying in a collective refusal to comply with the Trump Admin's new military reporting standards.


No other World/Global News comm on any other instance that I made this same post to acted similarly.

lemmy.zip Global News:

https://lemmy.zip/post/50994380

beehaw.org World News:

https://beehaw.org/post/22673636

(my internet is shitting itself right now and I can't load beehaw, will try to update later)

EDIT: internet's back up, link updated

lemmy.ml World News:

https://lemmy.ml/post/37548697


... the meta-irony of this is physically painful to me.

Sure would be neat if the lemmy.world admins followed through on their recent pledge to reevaluate the staffing of their mod teams.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This post here is about whether or not this specific mod action was warranted. And I still think it absolutely was.

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...

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.

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

... who is us?

Who... what group are you referring to here?