Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

[queenursula]

Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most prominent literary awards in science fiction, excluded multiple authors from shortlists last year over concerns their work or public comments could be offensive to China, leaked emails show. https://t.co/reJJbY0U3a
- NBC News (@NBCNews) February 16, 2024
Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most

Comments

[selina_kyle]

Maybe the arts world shouldn't capitulate to CCP.

Why would you hold an awards ceremony in a country notorious for its censorship?

[xdecadentx]

Yeah this is gonna end badly.

[fuckinmagnets]

China didn't even tell them to do all of that, they just went and did it on their own.

What losers.

[anterrabre]

All of this is disgusting. Neil is furious and has been going off about this online for days and I don't blame him. Politics has no business in these awards. As the person upthread said don't let China host if it's an issue.

[wickedchild_md]

See, China didn’t even ask/tell/demand anyone be excluded from the awards. This was all the admins doing it on their own and being dicks about it when asked.

[azetburcaptain]

Exactly

[imnotasquirrel]

yeah and it's been pissing me off the way a lot of ppl are saying that they're still convinced that china is behind it somehow. like, i'm not discounting that it's possible that a chinese party might have been involved, but so far all the evidence is pointing to dave mccarty and his group. but, yknow, god forbid the enlightened westerners be responsible for bullshit censorship!

[landwarinasia]

MTE!! I hate when people say stuff like "Disney won't have gay couples in their movies because of China" as though Disney's not censoring their own movies and being censored by the American government/military.