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title: "I submitted Ross Ulbricht for the MIT Civil Disobedience award last…"
date: 2017-08-11
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# I submitted Ross Ulbricht for the MIT Civil Disobedience award last…

*August 11, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/](https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/){target="_blank"}
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I submitted Ross Ulbricht for the MIT Civil Disobedience award last year. They announced the winners on July 20, 2017.\
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The winners? Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards, academics who\...\
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\"\...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\"\
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Oooh, they defied peer review conventions?!? Such daring! And faced academic sanction! So brave!\
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Weak sauce.\
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Here\'s Ethan Zuckerman\'s explanation for their choices:\
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[http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/07/20/defining-disobedience/](http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/07/20/defining-disobedience/){target="_blank"}\
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[https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/](https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/reflections-on-the-disobedience-award/){target="_blank"}
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