From: usenet@mikevanpelt.com   
      
   In article ,   
   James Nicoll  wrote:   
   >At this point it is not clear that the authorities played any direct   
   >role. It could be self-censorship. There's also a case that this was   
   >not political at all but rather giant fuckup processiing the votes:   
      
   Which only excluded specifically those works by people or with   
   content that the genocidal totalitarian regiem in Bejing had a   
   problem with, and none others.   
      
   Coincidences happen.  But to quote Auric Goldfinger....   
      
   "Once is happenstance.  Twice is coincidence.  Three times   
   is enemy action."  There were more than three works that   
   somehow mysteriously ran afoul of this "mere happenstance,   
   nothing to see here, move along, move along" thing.   
      
   Insisting that the works were excluded "by the rules"   
   but adamantly refusing to even hint at *which* rules and   
   attacking anyone who asks "which rules"... doesn't engender   
   much in the way of confidence.   
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