{"id":29985,"date":"2024-02-15T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29985"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:45:33","slug":"the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29985","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is a must read report on what happened to the 2023 Hugo Awards. Also on File 770, letters from <a href=\"https:\/\/file770.com\/2023-hugo-awards-related-statement-by-kat-jones\/\">Kat Jones<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/file770.com\/diane-laceys-letter-about-the-2023-hugos\/\"> Diane Lacey<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2023-Hugo-Awards-Censorship-Report_Final.pdf\">2023 Hugo Awards Censorship Report_Final<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extract below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEAKED EMAILS AND FILES REVEAL POLITICAL CONCERNS RESULTED IN INELIGIBILITY ISSUES WITH 2023 HUGO AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford: <\/strong>Emails and files released by one of the administrators of the 2023 Hugo Awards indicate that authors and works deemed \u201cnot eligible\u201d for the awards were removed due to political considerations. In particular, administrators of the awards from the United States and Canada researched political concerns related to Hugo-eligible authors and works and discussed removing certain ones from the ballot for those reasons, revealing they were active participants in the censorship that took place.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/file770.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023-Hugo-Award-Stats-Final.pdf\">Hugo Award voting and nomination statistics were released<\/a>, no detailed explanation was given for why multiple authors and works were deemed \u201cnot eligible\u201d even though they had enough nominations to make the award\u2019s final ballot. The only official explanation came from overall Hugo Awards administrator Dave McCarty, <a href=\"https:\/\/file770.com\/2023-hugo-nomination-report-has-unexplained-ineligibility-rulings-also-reveals-who-declined\/\">who said<\/a> \u201cAfter reviewing the Constitution and the rules we must follow, the administration team determined those works\/persons were not eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, emails and files released by another member of that Hugo administration team, Diane Lacey, shows that the rules \u201cwe must follow\u201d were in relation to Chinese laws related to content and censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a must read report on what happened to the 2023 Hugo Awards. Also on File 770, letters from Kat Jones and Diane Lacey.\u00a0 Click here to read the report: 2023 Hugo Awards Censorship Report_Final Extract below: LEAKED EMAILS AND FILES REVEAL POLITICAL CONCERNS RESULTED IN INELIGIBILITY ISSUES WITH 2023 HUGO AWARDS By Chris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[398],"tags":[1746,586,1744,162,1745,1747],"class_list":["post-29985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-chengdu","tag-china","tag-chris-m-barkley","tag-hugo-awards","tag-jason-sanford","tag-mccarty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29987,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions\/29987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}