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…
… 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.
PTB
I do think this is world news. The US military is the largest in the world, like it or not. Reporters have kept leaders accountable in the past. Without accountability, the US military can more easily meddle with foreign countries and claim false results, changing the global geopolitical landscape using their lies.
Exactly, thank you.
Yeah, as you say, like it or not, the US Military is huge, and everyhere, its… quite obvious that this whole story is relevant to basically the entire world.
Would someone wanting to avoid US specific news want to see this article?
There are other communities to post it to, like !politics
Maybe have a comm for non-US news then? Major US news is world news, as US is part of the world.
Afaik the community in question is a non-U.S. news community. Its rule 1 is literally no US news.
Probably not, but that doesn’t make it not world news.
I agree. As a EU-external European, this seems like very relevant news to me.