Perhaps they could've given it to Aaron Swartz to support the legal issues they threw him in as a result of his responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules, or laws to benefit society.
I'm half-tempted to nominate him as an act of disobedience.
Heck, rather than a prize, IMO a better idea would be to create a "Disobedience Legal Defense Fund", the sort of thing that might have helped 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? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
I'm half-tempted to nominate him as an act of disobedience.