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As someone that actively engages in disobedience it is disheartening that they'd award $250k to a single winner instead of $50k to five, $10k to twenty-five, et

As someone that actively engages in disobedience it is disheartening that they'd award $250k to a single winner instead of $50k to five, $10k to twenty-five, etc. So many people struggle to make a difference, no matter how small, and being honored for their efforts, when it's most likely that it rarely if ever happens in real life, would be inspiring to them to keep up what they're doing. For those interested in reading about the original post covering in detail the thoughts behind the award, see this blog post: https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/03/21/on-disobedience.html https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/03/21/on-disobedience.html

allenleein 10y ago
We should still nominate still Aaron Swartz. ＊＊＊Aaron Swartz＊＊＊ Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. (From archive.org: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...)
- ploggingdev 10y ago
  From the post : > Eligibility requirements for the $250,000 prize > The recipient must be living. So that rules out Aaron Swartz.
  - ReverseCold 10y ago
    But it's a disobedience award, so... disobey the rules.
    - ReverseCold 10y ago
      Or disobey disobeying the rules and do whatever you want within the rules.
    - sebastianconcpt 10y ago
      You can disobey as long as you fit the narrative. This is an issue far beyond MIT even countries
    - flamedoge 10y ago
      import his brain...?
  - zentropia 10y ago
    Give it to the founder of scihub
- noipv4 10y ago
  Scihub took up much of Aaron's mission.

allenleein 10y ago

We should still nominate still Aaron Swartz. ＊＊＊Aaron Swartz＊＊＊ Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. (From archive.org: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...)

ploggingdev 10y ago
From the post : > Eligibility requirements for the $250,000 prize > The recipient must be living. So that rules out Aaron Swartz.
- ReverseCold 10y ago
  But it's a disobedience award, so... disobey the rules.
  - ReverseCold 10y ago
    Or disobey disobeying the rules and do whatever you want within the rules.
  - sebastianconcpt 10y ago
    You can disobey as long as you fit the narrative. This is an issue far beyond MIT even countries
  - flamedoge 10y ago
    import his brain...?
- zentropia 10y ago
  Give it to the founder of scihub
noipv4 10y ago
Scihub took up much of Aaron's mission.