BIG BLOW TO BIG TECH: Erik Finman Launches New Free-Speech Focused “Freedom” Phone
By: Russell Wallace
This is indeed great news! One entrepreneur at a time they are gradually building a system totally independent of and not controllable by the evil creatures that own and operate big tech and it’s social media. Replacements/alternatives for Google, you tube, Twitter, and Facebook and now a way out of Apple and Android. This is great. Us conservatives will not bend our view points or sources to comply with or submit to big tech social media and the mainstream media. We will find work arounds and alternatives and treat them as our domestic ideological opposition.
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BIG BLOW TO BIG TECH: Erik Finman Launches New Free-Speech Focused “Freedom” Phone
by Russell Wallace about 7 hours agoupdated about 3 hours ago
When you close your eyes and picture the single-handed savior of free speech what do you see? Is it a broad-chested guttural-roaring giant a la Alex Jones? Maybe a waxy suit-and-and tie sporting robotic businessman injection-molded from Elon Musk’s shell? You’d be dead wrong on both counts.
Erik Finman is the world’s youngest Bitcoin millionaire and the bright-eyed zeal of youth and unshakeable Conservative core values have launched him into the world of defeating the Big Tech oligarchs. How does he plan on doing this? By using his wealth for good and making the world’s first smart phone that is built on the foundation of free speech.
Today I'm announcing the Freedom Phone. This is the first major pushback on the Big Tech companies that attacked us - for just thinking different. Complete with it's own Uncensorable App Store & Privacy Features. We're finally taking back control. {Deleted} ToS
According to Business Insider ’s 2019 biography:
Erik Finman says he’s the youngest person to become a bitcoin millionaire.
In the past eight years, he’s grown his bitcoin holdings from about 100 (worth $1,000 in 2011) to nearly 450 (worth about $4.5 million in 2019). And he had an early start — he made his first investment at age 12, and became a millionaire at age 18.
Finman grew up in Post Falls, a small town outside of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. His parents met as Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Erik is the youngest of their three sons.
Erik first learned about bitcoin from a “hippie” at a protest, and he thought it sounded promising. He told Cheddar his older brother brought him to a protest following the financial crisis of 2008. He recalls running from the police and seeing a man wearing a bitcoin shirt, and then asking him what bitcoin was.
“ He’s like a hippie, he’s like, ‘Man, I think it’s gonna end Wall Street, all the corruption, and all the bad things .’” That prompted Finman to research the cryptocurrency himself and he decided, along with his brother, that it was the next big thing.
Finman upped the ante in a bet with his parents: If he became a millionaire by the age of 18, he wouldn’t have to go to college. Erik got an internship at a startup selling Sprayable Energy — so he moved to Silicon Valley.
In June 2017 at the age of 18, he became a millionaire when bitcoin’s value crossed $2,700 — meaning he won his bet with his parents.
His success may have shot him into the limelight, but he’s not interested in sitting on his laurels and simply living off his cash for the rest of his life. No, Erik’s mission is to go out there and “ actually fix things ” as his website says.
One of the things that he sees as in need of fixing is the lack of privacy and free speech in the world of technology. That’s why his latest project is launching the Freedom Phone. The phone boasts that it’s, “ Not just making America great but also making a great phone .”
According to the website: “ The Freedom Phone is a free speech and privacy first focused phone. With features like tracking blockers and an un-censorable app store. Read what you like. Watch what you like. Think what you like. Nothing is censored. Some of the most popular banned & unbanned conservative sites & apps. Pre-loaded directly on your phone.”
That’s huge news for people worried about another Parler shutdown or the possibility of not being able to get their news from sources like OAN, Newsmax, or Trending Politics all of which come preloaded on the phone.
However, it’s not just a phone with a secure app store and cool apps, it’s also got a brand-new dedicated “A Free-Speech First Operating System”. The phone has truly been built from the ground up with the 1 st Amendment in mind. They continue, “ We’ve developed the first mass-marketable mobile phone operating system based on free speech. With powerful tools such as Trust , you are in control of what your apps can do whenever you want. Trust will help you understand the security of your device and warn you about possible threats .”
They make their goals as crystal clear as it can get towards the bottom of the homepage. “ We want to create a future where free communication is not banned by Big Tech. We want to bring back free speech. Forever .” Not only is this a high-minded ambition, but one that could spell disaster for the competitors when the imminent success of the phone takes off.
After all, who would want a phone that we all know tracks, listens, and constantly violates your privacy without so much as asking first? Especially when the Freedom Phone can be had for a mere $499.99, a third of the price of an iPhone, and unlike most leasing plans that phone providers have, this one is all yours for that price.
Erik may have been successful with money when he was a mere 12 years old, but now his success is focused on changing the world, one free-speech phone at a time. For my money I know that I’ll be switching to a Freedom Phone as soon as humanly possible.
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... and centered in the white supremacist capitol of the west. good for him, there's plenty of sheep for him to sheer. 70+ million at last count.
gee, does he have his own nationwide network of cell towers too? the continued failures of trumpsters to grasp how the telecommunications infrastructure works never ceases to amaze me. morons deserve to be scammed.
Piece by piece conservatives are gradually building a telecom and internet and social media all free from the lamestream media and big tech social media. Liberals told conservatives to create our own if we don’t like the direction big tech is taking things and now some are doing just that.
please name all of the current successful internet and social media applications of this new conservative network that are as popular or profitable as any of the mainstream players. all any of them are doing is making law enforcement's job of tracking the domestic terrorists easier.
Conservatives are building an internet ?
The cons dream of a place where they can lie with impunity and use racial and sexual slurs.
So they can spread hate and misinformation!
So... Can I use it to access the Rachel Maddow app?
Isn't that the dude that has a very low viewership on a cable network almost no one watches?
Yep that's the one...............................
Cool, finally a phone for child molesters to trade pics on. Parler which was basically a porn site should upload their Ap to it.
"Our own app store. Read what you like. Watch what you like. Think what you like. Nothing is censored"
Is this another FBI "sponsored" smart phone?
I’m sure the FBI would love to have unlimited access to it without a warrant or a court order. After all they have to crack down on free speech directly if they can’t use big tech social media as their agents in doing so.
And we all know that Bill Barr tried to do just that before leaving.
They're not cracking down on the free speech of Trump supporters and right wing conservatives, they're cracking down on child molesters, insurrectionists and dangerous white supremacist militia groups. It's not their fault those groups just happen to be made up of many Trump supporters and right wing conservatives...
So all you have is some red herring about something clearly illegal and not just a difference of opinion on a series of policy issues to use as a rationale to allow big tech to censor opposing science, religion, political views via biased “fact checkers” and “moderation”?
I'm sorry, you wanted more? Okay ... the address of his 'business' is a small shopping mall of bars and bakeries. His site gives zero info on the phone, you know, the important stuff like where is it made (most likely China who as we know nevuh messes with phone tech). "Freedom Phone"? ... meh, hold onto your money, the "Patriot Phone" with an extended magazine will be Bitman's next not at all free but just as dumb offer to the gullible.
Hello, is anybody there? Earth to wackos, come in please. Now everyone, on the count of three ------ one, .... two...... three...... "Lock her up!.... Lock her up!....Lock her up.... "
I iove that phone!
And its totally secure -- there's no way the evil gub'mint (or other snooping "Socialists") can listen in!
(Well, not unless they can find a long enough piece of string . . . as well as an empty tin can!
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The cool kids have the flip phone.
sounds to me like the gauntlet has been thrown. I predict a lot of big fun at his expense.
What gauntlet? Is free speech out of big tech social media control or influence that offensive to you?
please define the conservative's version of free speech. in most cases to any casual observer it seems to be the continuous dispersal of bullshit, even after it's been debunked and proven to be bullshit. still believe the last election was stolen from trump?
sounds to me like the gauntlet has been thrown. I predict a lot of big fun at his expense.
Unless of course the company making it becomes too successful like some other big tech companies (Like Facebook, Amazon, etc).
Then Congress will investigate them and try to break up the company!
It would have to grow an awful lot for that to happen although this congress will likely investigate them for the crime of doing business while conservative.
They'll prosecute them for ditching work to go to Washington.
The ''Deep State'' was able to get photos of this ''Freedumb Phone''.
This is it, the most modern of technology is used and it's available soon, well pretty soon, maybe a bit later.
If a website is censoring content, no device —including the Freedom Phone— can break the censor. It is not as if this phone is a magical tool that can sneak past censorship and access mechanisms in websites.
For example, Trump could buy a Freedom Phone but he still would not be able to Tweet.
there's a new app for that on the freedom phone. I believe it's called twitler.
The freedom phone will give its user ready access to use and visit sites the msm and big tech social media want to censor as well as providing apps for sites Apple and Google won’t allow to be sold on their sites. It’s all about creating a new alternative internet and social media separate from and independent of the original one.
Uh, no. Really, XX, you should be able to reason this out even without a knowledge of technology.
You think a phone can break through the security layers of an arbitrary website? Really? Do you think that cybersecurity in 2021 is that weak?
Do you, for example, think that phone can get you access to even little NT using a suspended account (i.e. circumvent the restrictions imposed by suspension)? Hint: not a chance.
But go ahead, spend your money and see for yourself.
You aren’t on the same page with what I was saying at all. Total red herring and straw man in one thread so far.
Your vague and entirely evasive response does not change what you wrote:
Wrong. As I explained. No client device is able to give access to sites that are censoring you. If you cannot tweet, for example, there is nothing that you can do to get around Twitter's censorship. They control the access to their site.
Unless you think the Freedom phone is some kind of universal hacking device (impossible).
What I actually said in 6.1.1 is exactly right.
Him tweeting on Twitter was never the issue. The phone will give its owner access to every web site and social media alternative that big tech is trying to limit or eliminate. Like the photo in the article if big tech is trying to limit it it will be front and center on that phone.
No it will not. There is no such thing as a universal hack.
A client device (e.g. a phone) cannot give the user access to a website that does not wish the user to have access.
I offered the Twitter example so that you would understand the concept.
Spend more time trying to learn instead of simply rejecting everything that does not come from one of your trusted sources.
Again you are out in left field regarding what I said. I never once said or implied one could use it to go anywhere unwanted or hack anything. I said it prominently features the very alternative social media that big tech wishes didn’t exist and has gone to considerable effort to eliminate such as Gab, CloutHub, Rumble,Parler, as well as alternative news media like WND, Breitbart, OAN, etc. Basically the more badly a place like MBFC is going to rate a political or news website, the more likely it will be available on that phone. People buying this phone will be giving those sites more traffic because they will be easy to reach instead of hard. Like for Parler once Apple took it out of their App Store I had to download their website to my front page. With the new one the app will be readily available. I’m not going to buy one right now as I’m still paying for the peoples iPhone I bought last year in June. It will be interesting to see the consumer reviews of those who do initially buy it starting next month.
A phone is just a client device. It allows you to communicate with websites that allow you to do so.
If the website does not allow you to communicate, the phone cannot get around that.
And in the case of websites (e.g. Parler) denied support by a web services platform provider (e.g. Amazon), the phone will not do anything. In cases like this, the website (e.g. Parler) must find a new web services hosting platform. A phone does not solve that problem.
To solve problems like Parler's, the Freedom phone would need to be a hosting platform (and thus it would not simply be a phone but rather a cloud server technology) and the websites wishing to use this platform will have to redeploy their programming to work within this new host (just like Parler had to do). This is an expensive process that does not happen by pushing a button.
And just to be clear, you understand that Trump can buy a Freedom phone and still will not be able to tweet. Get that?
This is just another smart phone made in China with preloaded alt+right social media bubble apps. Nothing more. It may sell a few thousand units, but then it down to a trickle as altra-conservatives wait for their phone contracts to age out. I don't see any information on support infrastructure here either. If people have issues with their phone who's going to be around to help them? We also know that a couple of those social media apps like Parlor syphoned off user data - is that going to be a thing with this phone too? User use and tracking data is big business and the target group on this product hasn't been immune to it.
Exactly. There is nothing this phone provides other than making it more convenient to access certain sites that allow the user to access them.
No magic. No freedom from censorship. I guess the entrepreneur figures that the market that believes Trump actually won the election is gullible enough to pay money to buy his phones.
He just might be on to something here.
Quit posting comments that are ridiculous. The freedom phone is designed to make big tech disfavored sites more accessible than a regular phone. All the sites mentioned or alluded to above will be preloaded on to the phone or made easily available. Their App Store will sell the apps that Google and Apple will not. It uses conservative friendly search engines and security systems and vpn, It does not break into big tech sites or try to . The point of the phone is to tie all the conservative sites together on the device totally independent of big tech social media. So this phone will go to duck duck go instead of Google or safari. It will go to Rumble instead of you tube and Parler rather than Twitter and GETTR or MeWe instead of Facebook. It will go to Fox News or Breitbart instead of MSN or Apple news. The whole point of the phone is to have all the alternative social and news media sites on it and none of big tech social media. A phone with no Google or you tube app on it no Twitter, no Facebook. This phone is all about connecting all the alternative stuff together on one device, not to use to try to break into evil big tech social media.
So you want people to spend 500 dollars on a phone that will not be able to get the Google, Facebook or Twitter apps. Good luck with that.
How? My iPhone already gives me access to every site that has granted me same. If a site does not allow me to access it, the Freedom phone cannot change that.
Yes, that is all it can do. It is simply an alternate user interface. No special ‘freedom’, just a packaging of apps and website links.
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It’s not that it’s not able to. It is. They are simply not preloaded. If they are available in an App Store they can be put on. The whole point of most people buying this phone will be to avoid those “services”.
LOL, if someone does not want a service then they delete the app or do not go to a particular website.
Are you actually going to spend your money on a device simply because it selects apps for you?
If this phone does not match the capabilities of iPhone (or whatever you use) are you going to carry both your iPhone and your Freedom phone? Or are you going to forego the superior iPhone technology just to get some 'Trumpian' selection of apps?
An interesting question. I generally hate android phones and tablets. I wish they could have manipulated an apple platform but they didn’t.
... and, of course, no answer from you.
It is clear that this phone has the screen, data, storage, and camera of a contemporary android phone so your question is moot.
You deem my question interesting and then deem it moot.
It would seem that your answer is that you think the Freedom Phone has enough of the capabilities of your current Android device so you will cancel your Android phone and just go with the Freedom Phone as your mobile device.
Well you better hope then that the Freedom Phone has the market clout and funding to keep up with the established phone providers such as Apple and Google. And also cross your fingers that a secondary market of conservative-friendly sites emerge that match what one can get with Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. You have quite an uphill journey.
I don’t have an android device as I’ve stated before. I have the Apple peoples iPhone that was introduced in April 2020 that that was then selling for $399 for the base 64 MB model which I have. This new freedom phone doesn’t need every bell and whistle in order to be popular. It seems one can get a reasonably equipped Android model for $449.
Are you going to not use your iPhone and buy a Freedom Phone instead?
I already answered that question in this seed
He could likely find a way to re Reg like people do all the time on social media. The phone would have nothing to do with that. It’s just that it would be pointless for a public figure to do it since no one would recognize them for who they really were and would have no major following. And if they were recognized they’d be re banned.
Correct. The phone is a waste of money for the gullible. You can, for example, download DuckDuckGo on your iPhone today.
Yeah, but they don't want to give the Apple Store the download hit, nor even the money for the next iPhone. Personally I don't think Apple, Google, Samsung or any of the other major phone makers are worried about market erosion from this venture. It's probably a Huawei clone like the new TCL phones.
Wrong. See 6.3.2
If you want people to actually read your comments, try posting your point and back it with a quote.
Posting half an article in a comment without any point made by you and asking people to just 'go read' is kidding yourself.
Nothing in 6.3.2 even address my post, let alone refutes it. To make a cell phone as cheap as this one is purported to be it has to be made in China.
This gives me a chuckle because Google owns Android. If it's built on top of Android Google get's paid OR they will sue and likely win as they have in the past.
It’s a highly modified android clone scrubbed free of all things Google with added security and encryption.
Who said Google wouldn’t get paid? No one is going to go steal them. Just severely modify after the fact.
A straw man argument made by absolutely no one.
When will you ever learn what a strawman argument is?
What you quoted was a comment intended to state facts that show the Freedom Phone does not do anything special. It is just a device that presents a user interface that limits you to trusted sites.
Big deal. The phone is nothing special. You could access these sites (if they exist) with your iPhone / Android phone.
The Freedom Phone does nothing to create these sites and since it does not provide any means to access the sites that are censored, it does not really do much other than secure suckers who think that buying this phone in some way gives them freedom.
What you really want are alternate sites to Google, YouTube, Twitter, etc. The Freedom Phone does nothing to help you there.
Go ahead, spend your $ on this phone. I remember you said that you would leave the stock market if Trump lost. Remember I told you how dumb that reasoning was. Same here, it is your money to waste.
I love my freedom!
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Wonder how many pedophiles will sign up thinking they can't be tracked...
I wonder how many gullible Trump sycophants will spend their $$ on this thinking it gives them 'freedom' to circumvent censorship so they can find that elusive evidence that proves Trump won.
It will be interesting if and when they use it and commit a crime (verbal or other) that they can be tracked.
This is the thinking on the left? Lol!
Trump won!
... the praise and admiration of David Duke, Vladimir Putin, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and numerous other white supremacists, neo-Fascists and other assorted misfits.
... the Earth is flat
... Noah carried live dinosaurs on his ark
... evolution is a fraud perpetrated by a coordinated effort across the entire planet for more than a century
... Freedom phone circumvents censorship
Thinking would be difficult at best for the rightwing but if you try really really hard you can do it.
Only in your mind. Not in reality.
Facebook has had its share of such villains.
... and they're banned now, which explains the numerous failed attempts to create their own alt-social media platforms, and now their dumb ass alt-cell phones. what a bunch of fucking morons.