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Fuck China and their censorship, the Hugos should be ashamed to bow down to it. Literally the genre that calls their nonsense out.
It's bigger than "China and their censorship."
The problem, as always, is maximizing profit. As long as people put profit before everything else, whoever has the most money is going to control what happens.
Fwiw, this is not a case of China stepping in and censoring anything about the awards. Rather, it's a case of the Hugo administration in the West self-censoring their nominees because they feared China might step in if they didn't get ahead of the curve.
Of course, that doesn't really change the situation, but we shouldnt get the story twisted here. The blame falls on the administrators who were so afraid of a threat that they imagined that they caved to non-existent demands, rather than the Chinese (at least for direct fault, since you could argue the Chinese government's policies indirectly led to this situation and I wouldn't fight you on that).
Your point would be more reasonable if we didn't have a precedent of things like that happening with them before. I'm not saying the administration isn't to blame, as well. But acting like they shouldn't be concerned about repercussions is disingenuous, at best.
How do we know that? It might well have been part of the agreement to host the awards, a direct or indirect request not to allow certain authors, books, or topics deemed offensive to the CCP.
file770 article written by two journalists who reviewed the committee's emails after one of said committee leaked them to atone for her role in the controversy.
Feel free to read the whole thing. It doesn't take long. If you prefer primary sources, the work-product they refer to is linked within the report. The conclusions the authors draw seems sound based on the evidence. Sure it's possible that the CCP meddled "off-the-record", but to assume that in contrast to what the evidence states seems like hunting for a Boogeyman to confirm our prejudices.
Sorry, that dog ain't going to hunt.
You realize the gaming industry went through something similar along these lines not so long ago? There's a repeated pattern of this happening.
You're making an assumption that verbal conversations, 'off the record', didn't happened beforehand.
China didn't have anything to do with it. They censored books that were already translated and selling in china, and Chinese authors.
China = Censorship.
It's impossible to believe that a pro-China author might have been censored at a western organized and operated media event. There's no way that a wildly popular domestically written and published and Galaxy Award winning sci-fi novel "We Live In Nanjing" got left off the list because it was too pro-China!
No. If novels and authors were excluded from the list - if R. F. Kuang and Jiang Bo didn't make the list - it must be due to the villainous Chinese censors doing Evil China Stuff, and not a bunch of elderly Euro-Americans felt like trimming the pool back to an almost exclusively western and white author pool.