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.
Tell me this… You run a community which specifically disallows US news.
Someone posts US news to it.
It gets reported.
As a mod, what do YOU do? Just curious.
I wouldn’t make such a rule in a community named ‘world news’ because the rule is stupid.
If I moderated a community called World New Except the USA then I would make rulings based on whether the news impacts places outside the USA.
Then I would learn about the terminology of other governments instead of banning people for using the word ‘government’ properly in the context of their country like an insufferable jackass.
All that requires more than the two brain cells you apparently use.
Funny thing, I didn’t make that rule, nor did I make the community.
I’m OK with it though because it’s nice having at least one forum that isn’t “Trump does something stupid” 24/7.