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2023 Hugo Awards and the Chinese Communist Party

2024-02-15 18:36:01.810649+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion

When the Hugo Award voting and nomination statistics were released, no detailed explanation was given for why multiple authors and works were deemed “not eligible” even though they had enough nominations to make the award’s final ballot. The only official explanation came from overall Hugo Awards administrator Dave McCarty, who said “After reviewing the Constitution and the rules we must follow, the administration team determined those works/persons were not eligible.”

However, emails and files released by another member of that Hugo administration team, Diane Lacey, shows that the rules “we must follow” were in relation to Chinese laws related to content and censorship.

Diane Lacey's apology letter. Same Letter on Facebook

Kat Jones wrote:

I would not be willing to participate in any way in the administration of an award under such circumstances again. I don’t think we, as a community, should put our Hugo Award administration teams in this kind of no-win situation.

Scalzi: The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here

[ related topics: Free Speech Law Television Civil Liberties Mathematics Community Government ]

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