22-Year-Old Bitcoin Entrepreneur Announces 'Free Speech' Phone for Trump Fans

[Initech]

Watch out Apple and Google, there’s a new phone on the block that’s promising to upend the market by baking FREE SPEECH into the device. It’s called the Freedom Phone and it’s the brainchild of Erik Finman, who is the self-proclaimed "youngest bitcoin millionaire,” according to a forthcoming press release about the phone. The Freedom Phone comes preloaded with Parler and is “the first mass-marketable mobile phone based on free speech.”

According to the press release, “the main feature of the phone is that it includes: The FreedomOS App Store. An app store that is free from censorship. Parler, Gab, and any other app—banned or unbanned—can submit their app to our app store knowing that they are free from suppression.”

Parler and Gab are, essentially, right-wing Twitter clones that have been banned by the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Not on Freedom Phone, however: When a new user boots up their Freedom Phone, Parler will be right there on the homescreen, ready for them to use.

After the Capitol Riots, Google, Apple and Amazon AWS stopped doing business with Parler. After the site crumbled, hackers archived every post and video its users had made, which helped lead to a lot of them being arrested for their roles in the January 6 Capitol Riots. Parler is back online, but its users have mostly fled to Telegram and other services. Gab, meanwhile, has been repeatedly hacked.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxqxa/22-year-old-bitcoin-entrepreneur-announces-free-speech-phone-for-trump-fans

I give this... two days before it becomes the victim of hackers, phishing scammers, and porn bots.

Also I did some digging around, and apparently a conservative Christian phone provider exists that I was not aware of:

https://patriotmobile.com/

These are both real!

[tanyev]

1. LOL. That should go well.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. It'll be filled with child porn by the end of the month.

[Initech]

5. I say end of the week!

[zuul]

3. But wait!

Order now and you get pre-installed Chinese spyware at no additional cost!

[a kennedy]

4. Ha ha, I thought for sure you were gonna say, filled with Christian prayers, and bible verses......

[Initech]

8. That would be hilarious if the phone was made by Huawei!

[Hugin]

12. Well, you know it went to the lowest (in every sense of the word) bidder...

So, the odds are in your favor.

[Initech]

15. Of course it did!

The fact that the website doesn't list any specs on this device already makes it highly suspect!

[Hugin]

22. You realize, TFG at one point offered a branded (of course) cell service...

Which failed miserably and is a footnote in his never ending list of collapsed ventures.

It was set up as a pyramid scheme (again, of course) and one of my associates, who I swear falls for every single last con down the pike, tried to on-board me for around a year.

He can't stand Branson, yet, he does everything Branson does. It's sick.

[Initech]

25. OMG, I totally forgot about that one!

[Hugin]

27. Forget failing to run a casino...

This dude can fuck up a pyramid scheme.

How was he allowed to move from one disaster to another for 50+ years? That is really the question we should be asking ourselves.

[mwooldri]

17. Given that it appears to run a former Android, I wouldn't be surprised.

As far as I'm concerned, Android is the original "freedom" OS. Google and Samsung do a reasonable job at keeping me safe enough. I don't trust these freedom phone guys to keep me safe.

[CentralMass]

6. F..k Head phone.

[Hugin]

7. Yay! More stupider!

No vaccination microchip spying, but, who needs it when you carry this device with you at all times which is traceable and targetable... FROM SPACE! Just like the big billionaires! W00T!

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. We already know the frequencies to target our Jewish Space Lasers on!

And we appreciate the zillions in funding from George Soros that enable us to do that!

[Hugin]

10. Now you can share your most intimate conspiracy theories with foreign intelligence operatives, FBI..

agents posing as hot-hot-hotties, international crime syndicates, and be scammed by only the bigliest best orange hued con artists.

Do not wait! It won't wait for you!

DQ IT NQW! This is part of the plan!














(some restrictions apply, like there's only three cell networks in the US for them to operate on and they are all under the jurisdiction of the FCC)

(Ah, George... Always, on the cutting edge. He's a little late with my cheque this month, though. What's up with that?)

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. Sign up for direct deposit. The bamboo fibers were clogging the printers. nt

[Hugin]

18. Don't fret opting into our Auto-pay-pay-pay system!

WE'VE ALREADY DONE IT FOR YOU! State of the art convenience at your finger tips!

We charge the LOWEST data rates allowed by LAW!






(This may finally send me over to the dark side... I'm thinking of starting a competing service called, Qitterbug.)

[Initech]

16. Yeah they may stop Verizon but they won't stop the FBI!

[Hekate]

11. Porn and violent threats posted in 3...2...1...

[BGBD]

13. Lol

Yeah right. Good luck, asshole.

[LiberatedUSA]

19. If he isn't a CIA plant himself, this will make things easier on the government regardless.

[Takket]

20. who's really funding this? Even a "millionaire" does not have the money to start a cell phone

company

where is he manufacturing these?

where is he getting the raw materials?

what network is he using?

[Nevilledog]

21. See the movie Kingsman

[Takket]

23. this?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Nevilledog]

24. Yup. I don't wanna give away the plot.

It has one of my favorite fight scenes in a redneck church with the song Freebird as a backdrop.

[Nevilledog]

26. Here's the grift...

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Zachary Petrizzo
@ZTPetrizzo
Freedom Phone's business model appears to entail buying a $179 phone made in China, applying free publicly available software to the phone, and then selling it in the US for $500.
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