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MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by suyash »

Semiapies wrote: post #34
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #28

I just nominated Donald J Trump. He has disobeyed all political conventions in regard to his election campaign and especially in regard to his relationship with the media. In fact, many people believe he has disobeyed the supreme law of the United States: the Constitution with regards to the emoluments clause and not having a religious test with regards to his immigration ban executive order. He has taken personal ri…

I think the main thing that should disqualify him would be his lack of intention. But yes, that's the best-case result of his presidency.

Trump intentions are absolutely clear if you listen to him. I vote for Trump as well, he is going to make this country truly great.

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

glomek wrote: post #109
raverbashing wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly The AS widows are becoming annoying

Aaron Swartz being dead is becoming annoying.

There are many messages to take from Aaron's death.

I think one of the messages is that mental illness can affect anyone. Even people who seem perfectly normal. Even those who are rich. Even elites.

One reason Aaron took his own life might be that he felt he had no one to turn to. Or maybe he felt he shouldn't turn to anyone because he'd somehow be considered a failure.

Although it's perfectly valid to say that he was a victim of an injustice, I think we should also be conveying an additional message: That if you're dealing with something heavy, it's ok to reach out.

Hand in hand with that, the stigma against mental illness needs to end.

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by noipv4 »

allenleee wrote: post #88
saycheese wrote: post #17

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 read…

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? Yo…

Scihub took up much of Aaron's mission.

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by Pyxl101 »

bobsam wrote: post #15
sokoloff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To take another comment, suppose the Media Lab awards Snowden the $250K. What possible conspiracy charge could the Media Lab (or the person(s) who nominated Snowden) catch?

Has Snowden been charged with anything? If not, can it still be considered helping a fugitive?

> Has Snowden been charged with anything?

Yes, according to the Washington Post.

> Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.

> Snowden was charged with theft, “unauthorized communication of national defense information” and “willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person,” according to the complaint. The last two charges were brought under the 1917 Espionage Act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-ch...

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

oopsietazer wrote: post #80
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just stupid. The award is clearly for people who are being disobedient for the benefit of society. Breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is just anarchy or trolling. You're just inconveniencing people who set out to recognise real contributions to society. Unless there is an Aaron Schwartz foundation or something, nominate people who are still doing work.

This isn't about Aaron. It's about the next person who downloads too much free stuff doing it emboldened by the thought that MIT will have their back when the feds come knocking. If only because not doing so costs MIT 250 thousand dollars. That would be a much bigger contribution to society than any one person walking away with this award.

> This isn't about Aaron. It's about the next person who downloads too much free stuff doing it emboldened by the thought that MIT will have their back when the feds come knocking. If only because not doing so costs MIT 250 thousand dollars.

The next person? There are people CURRENTLY downloading free stuff and sharing it.

Nominate an appropriate person. Vote for someone who really deserves it NOW. Show these people that we support civil disobedience when it benefits society. Take the fucking money.

At this point, I have to believe that the people who want to flood them with ineligible nominees are simply trolling HN and trolling the MIT Media Lab. You guys are potentially throwing away 250K for no real reason.

Also from the page > Both individuals and groups are eligible to win the prize.

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Post by slg »

After reading the comments on this page, I am a little disheartened that apparently most people want to give what is basically a work grant to a dead guy. Regardless of what you think of someone like Aaron Swartz, there are plenty of people who are currently doing good work who could greatly benefit from something like this. Giving it to a dead person simply to make a political statement diminishes any impact this award could have.
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