The MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award: $250K for "disobedience for the benefit of society"

https://youtu.be/fhHL8_7k82Y

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…)

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