I've nominated Alexandra Elbakyan of sci-hub and encourage everyone else to do the same. I'd also be happy if Aaron Swartz won!
The first eligibility requirement: The recipient must be living.
Idk, nominate his father?
MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
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Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
#52Todays radical act of disobedience for me was disabling JavaScript on this site. Quelle surprise, it promptly broke and was all black, despite being literally a form.
It looks like Typeform which depends pretty heavily on interactivity, like for keyboard shortcuts. It's somewhat surprising they wouldn't have a no JS fallback but on the other hand the experience would be markedly worse than those with JS on.
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#54It doesn't matter if Aaron Swartz is ineligible. We should still nominate him. We should nominate him so many times that granting the award to anyone else makes this award an obviously disingenuous publicity stunt.
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#55How are so many people bringing up Aaron Swartz? Media Lab !== MIT and this is probably entirely Joi's idea. And the MIT administration has changed significantly since 2013.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then it should have made several conflicting announcements at the time, but I just saw one.
Because everyone at MIT has authority to make press releases. Similar to how everyone in the US is allowed to use the Whitehouse press secretary to announce things.
>Because everyone at MIT has authority to make press releases.
Well, if they don't, that's still a SINGLE organization to my eyes.
Just because some people there might disagreed at the time, it doesn't absolve the organization.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then it should have made several conflicting announcements at the time, but I just saw one.
Your logical leap there is not sound.
Not much of a leap. At some point you either take a stand, even if it's against the official stance of the organization you work with, or you are branded with its decisions.
"I was just following orders" and/or "I disagreed, but I was in the minority" is not an excuse.
Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
#58How are so many people bringing up Aaron Swartz? Media Lab !== MIT and this is probably entirely Joi's idea. And the MIT administration has changed significantly since 2013.
If that were indeed the case then this shouldn't have been called an MIT award.
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#59Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
#60It doesn't matter if Aaron Swartz is ineligible. We should still nominate him. We should nominate him so many times that granting the award to anyone else makes this award an obviously disingenuous publicity stunt.
I'd vote for Swartz or Snowden any day. But IMO voting for Swartz would serve mostly to shame MIT. Voting for someone else might make a difference to a live person.