I submitted Ross Ulbricht for the MIT Civil Disobedience award last year. They announced the winners on July 20, 2017.
The winners? Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards, academics who...
"...faced harassment and ridicule for their work and risked academic sanctions for defying conventions of peer review as they sought to bring attention to Flint's water crisis"
Oooh, they defied peer review conventions?!? Such daring! And faced academic sanction! So brave!
Weak sauce.
Here's Ethan Zuckerman's explanation for their choices:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/07/20/defining-disobedience/
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/
The winners? Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards, academics who...
"...faced harassment and ridicule for their work and risked academic sanctions for defying conventions of peer review as they sought to bring attention to Flint's water crisis"
Oooh, they defied peer review conventions?!? Such daring! And faced academic sanction! So brave!
Weak sauce.
Here's Ethan Zuckerman's explanation for their choices:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/07/20/defining-disobedience/
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/