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The Co-Chair of Human Right Watch is the Executive Vice President of the Schmidt Family Foundation; a private foundation created by Eric Schmidt of Google.

Does someone who works alongside a major proponent of Surveillance Capitalism have your interests at heart?

Lightning Books 2y ago

Another Co-Chair of the HRW is Co-Founder of Index Ventures, a Sam Fransisco Venture Capital Fund.

Again, does this billionaire represent your interests?

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Lightning Books 2y ago

A regional advisor to the HRW is a current employee of Goldman Sachs, former Prime Minister of Perú, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank, as well as Secretary General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Lightning Books 2y ago

There are brilliant #bitcoin projects funded by the Human Rights Watch but just be aware that The Machine’ is churning against its original cypherpunk philosophy. Incentives matter and funding alters incentives and consequently outcomes.