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# Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring to Appease China
- URL: https://werd.io/leaked-emails-show-hugo-awards-self-censoring-to-appease-china/
- Published: 2024-02-16T02:41:34.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-16T02:41:34.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"A trove of leaked emails shows how administrators of one of the most prestigious awards in science fiction censored themselves because the awards ceremony was being held in China."

What's remarkable here is that they weren't censored by the government - instead this trove of emails suggests it was their own xenophobic assumptions about what was necessary to be acceptable in a Chinese context that shut authors out of one of the most prestigious prizes in science fiction. This includes eliminating authors whose work that would have been eligible was actually published in China.

There's a dark comedy to be written here about a group of westerners who are so worried about appeasing a government they consider to be censorial that they commit far more egregious acts of censorship themselves. [#Culture](https://werd.io/tag/Culture)

\[[Link](https://www.404media.co/leaked-emails-show-hugo-awards-self-censoring-to-appease-china/)\]