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Josh Franco

@heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social

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Hot takes on tech, human rights law and baseball mostly. I work for Amnesty Tech but I skeet for myself.

Josh Franco @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Inter-American SR on Free Expression calls for a ban on highly-invasive spyware like Pegasus which violates human rights by design. www.oas.org/en/iachr/exp...

Text of recommendation stating: Prohibit, through the appropriate regulatory authority, the acquisition, import,
and use of commercial spyware technologies lacking technical safeguards to limit
functions to specific, necessary, and proportionate surveillance objectives

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Josh Franco @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Funny story Know who else Meta gave $1 Million to? Not a group of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, who wanted it to build a school b/c they didn't have one, after FB helped enable ethnic cleansing against them at home Nope. FB called it "philanthropic activities" and said we don't do that

Screenshot of NYT headline about Meta donating $1 million to Trump

Photo of a quote from Facebook's response to a request from Rohingya refugees for $1 million to build a school, which reads "Unfortunately, after discussing with our teams, this specific proposal is not something that we're able to support. As I think we noted in our call, Facebook doesn't directly engage in philanthropic activities."

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Josh Franco @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sometimes Big Tech's euphemisms just give the game away. If it's an agreement, don't both sides get to alter it?

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Josh Franco @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“Necessary but not sufficient”, as we lawyers like to say. Wonder why it’s taking so long? There’s a clue at the end…

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