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The most radical conservative voices in the US believe they are being

routinely censored by big tech companies

. The blocking of former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Twitter accounts following the January 6 riots in Washington or the decision to remove Parler from the Apple and Google app stores for inciting violence are often used as examples of this "persecution".

It was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the frustration to do business and that someone has turned out to be

Erik Finman, a 22-year-old boy from Idaho

who calls himself

"the youngest Bitcoin millionaire

.

"

Finman announced his new adventure this week: the launch of the Freedom Phone, "the first phone that guarantees your freedom of expression and freedom."

It is a smartphone that comes from the factory with some of the

most controversial conservative applications

that have been withdrawn from the Apple and Google application stores, such as Parler, as well as shortcuts to

ultra-conservative media apps such

as OANN or Newsmax.

The phone also has its own application store, which Finman says will not have any kind of censorship or control, and will use

Duck Duck Go as the default search engine to avoid the Google search engine

.

It works with the main telephone operators in the country.

"It does the same as your current phone except spying on you and censoring you," says the product's website.

Freedom Phone will cost $ 499

and, perhaps in an oversight on Finman's part, it can be purchased using Apple Pay as a payment method, in addition to other more conventional methods.

Although Finman owes much of his fame and supposed fortune to Bitcoin, the phone cannot be bought with the cryptocurrency.

INCOGNITES

The Freedom Phone website devotes many paragraphs to talking about freedom of speech and censorship, but few to

the technical and more controversial details about the new phone

.

There is no spec sheet, for example, although reference is made to a 6-inch screen and a "great camera."

Finman also doesn't explain where the phones will be made

. If, like most smartphones in the world, it comes from China, it will be a detail that potential buyers may not like. It says that the operating system,

FreedomOS

, has been developed by the company itself, although it just looks like a slight modification of Android. The phones will also have Trust, an application that will notify the user when a website is trying to spy on him or follow his activity.

The phone that appears on the web resembles a UMIDIGI A9 Pro, a smartphone that costs about $ 170 bought in bulk and that

the Chinese company configures to suit users

, with its own logo and 'packaging', if they buy more of 500 units.

The first units of the Freedom Phone will ship in August

.

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With so little information on the phone, attention is shifting mainly to its creator, who despite his age

claims to have "conquered" Silicon Valley

.

The legend that Erik Finman

has been developing about himself starts with $ 1,000 that his grandmother gave him as a young man so that he could start saving for college.

Finman allegedly invested that money in Bitcoin when its price was still around $ 12.

At the age of 15, he decided to sell part of the investment, which by then already had a value of $ 100,000, to leave the institute and found a startup, Botangle, which he sold three years later for 300 bitcoin.

At 18, he says, his assets had already exceeded a million dollars

.

For this latest adventure, for the moment, she

seems to have managed to convince Candance Owens

, a well-known American author who has written several books and articles criticizing movements such as Black Lives Matter and who has been communication director of Turning Point USA, a well-known Republican conservative lobby .

But even with Owens's support, there are those who suspect that the

Freedom Phone could be closer to a scam

than a real proposition to fight censorship.

"As someone interested in the Internet of Things and the design and architecture of devices, I'm laughing at the thought that one of the most technologically illiterate segments of society is going to be taken for a fool with this Freedom Phone scam," he explains. author and journalist Richard Jeter.

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