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.

  • remon@ani.social
    118·
    4 days ago

    I would, and back a while ago, did argue that something like this is so potentially impactful to the entire world, that it is in fact ‘world news’, as in, news that is generally quite important to readers from anywhere, that is shaping or may shape the course of world history.

    Fair, but I would disagree.

    ‘US Internal News’ is not defined or explained at all within the rules, beyond just literally that phrase.

    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.

    By the logic of ‘it happens entirely within the US, so its internal US News’… a US Presidential election outcome is not world news, 9/11 (as it happened in real time) would not be world news, a theoretical military coup/counter coup in the US would not be world news.

    Some US department making rules for journalist isn’t a presidential election or 9/11 … ridiculous comparison.

    This is a dumb way to try to drawn this totally arbitrary and editorial line.

    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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      112·
      4 days ago

      … 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.

      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.

      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.

      Some US department making rules for journalist isn’t a presidential election or 9/11 … ridiculous comparison.

      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?

      • remon@ani.social
        75·
        4 days ago

        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.

        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

        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.

        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.

        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.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          101·
          4 days 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?