The MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award: $250K for "disobedience for the benefit of society"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3QD4G)
For the second year in a row, the MIT Media Lab is giving out a no-strings-attached cash award of $250,000 for "disobedience" that benefits society; the prize is a reaction to MIT's shameful historic instances of throwing disobedient researchers under the bus, from Aaron Swartz to Star Simpson to bunnie Huang. (more")