Leaked emails show organizers of the prestigious Hugo Awards vetted writers’ work and comments with regard to China, where last year’s awards were held.

Leaked emails show organizers of the prestigious Hugo Awards vetted writers’ work and comments with regard to China, where last year’s awards were held.

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.

Questions had been raised as to why writers including Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer had been deemed ineligible as finalists despite earning enough votes according to information published last month by awards organizers. Emails released this week revealed that they were concerned about how some authors might be perceived in China, where the Hugo Awards were held last year for the first time.

  • GhostFence@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Three Days of the Condor: Rogue CIA op “exposed” by a loyal CIA agent

    The crucial point is CIA op. The CIA had an oilfield contingency plan. That’s the organization, not just one corrupt individual. Definitely borders on institutional.

    All the President’s Men: About the law and the good parts of the government uniting to stop a criminal president

    “He also states the cover-up was not only intended to camouflage the CREEP involvement, but also to hide “covert operations” involving “the entire U.S. intelligence community”, including the CIA and FBI.”

    Sounds pretty institutional to me when two whole organizations are involved in corruption.

    Dr Strangelove: Rogue general with the POTUS et al trying to prevent world war 3

    Okay, then institutionalized stupidity.

    The Watchmen: You mean Alan Moore’s wank rag? I don’t think anything about that story is coherent enough to really over-analyze. But the HBO sequel series very much focused on the idea of The Good Cops/Supes

    Oh come on, the Government had collateral damage galore in Vietnam. And the killing of war protesters. All institutionally orchestrated.

    Eagle Eye: Did ANYONE watch this? So I’ll talk about Enemy of the State instead since that is an awesome movie. And it very much is about a rogue senator (?) and the NSA overreaching and is stopped by the good government agents and Big Willy Style

    The NSA is an institution and they blew up those civilian targets. Nobody stopped that. That’s what triggered everything else.

    But this is my main point here:

    Mostly I am just trying to point out that we are already adjusting “global” media to placate major demogrpahics. The main difference, like I said, being that pissing off the US Government means republicans won’t watch your movie. Pissing off the CCP means you need to be careful any time you are flying in the Eastern hemisphere.

    Yes, China is creating censorship of the worst form imaginable. And it is affecting what we Americans are able to see on cinema. All the downvoters on here see nothing wrong with this picture?