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I am surprised Alexandra Elbakyan did not win this because of her work with sci-hub. What could be the biggest disobedience of all other than freeing science fr

by nafizh 8y ago

I am surprised Alexandra Elbakyan did not win this because of her work with sci-hub. What could be the biggest disobedience of all other than freeing science from the grasp of Corporate profithood by sacrificing your own freedom of movement? Specially when the award is given by a science lab.

nkurz 8y ago
Yes, I think she'd be an obvious candidate. I'd be interested to know if she was nominated, and if so, what the discussion was. My guess (as an outsider but with some small insight into the group making these awards) is that Elbakyan would have generally strong support for her direct work on Scihub, but would be unsupportable to some because of her political beliefs. That is, I think her anti-capitalist ideology and less-than-full-fledged support for modern liberal beliefs may more of a problem for the committee than her anti-copyright stance. Here's a presentation where Elbakyan talks more about her political beliefs: https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-and-translation-sci-hub-presentation https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-an...