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The question is: which service does it use? Actually, it really doesn't matter, since none of them withhold info from the FBI/CIA for long after it's requested. I guarantee you this thing still tracks your location at a minimum.
I think in the ad they say they don't

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actually i wonder can you do polls on this phone or is it that bad
 

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THE Freedom Phone is a new phone created by Trump supporters and it's based on the events that happened during January (march at the capitol) It doesn't have any Google integration. It uses software like DuckDuckGo/Brave, their own AppStore , oan news etc. It is shady because it doesn't mention any specs on the phone. This phone has been endorsed by Candace Owens who is a possible running mate for Trump in 2024.
The website is here
https://freedomphone.com/
except same trump supporters are saying it's a honeypot or something. they don't trust the phone.
 

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except same trump supporters are saying it's a honeypot or something. they don't trust the phone.
It's a $100 phone being sold for $500, they're right to not trust it. Even if the intentions are just (lol), all it takes is for one of the letter agencies to buy the phone as well, and suddenly it's no longer a secure means of communication.
 
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I'm sure the security is on par with Parler.

If you really think the thread is in an inappropriate location, report it, but the phone is inherently political. It wouldn't be news if it weren't for the politics involved.

As for the "two-minute hate," it isn't our fault that the Freedom Phone is so pathetically a scam that it's an easy target for ridicule. Are you using a Freedom Phone? Because it seems personal for you to call people who rightfully criticize it and the scams of conservatives and the former president "brats."
Would he had any objections, if this was the Biden Phone instead?
 
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It was believed that the Freedom Phone was a $120 phone being sold for $500, but it looks like it's worth even less than that. Also, their "uncensorable app store" is apparently just a rebranded Google Play Store.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/
Is the freedom phone sponsored by Soulja Boy? Taking a cheaper item slaps his name and sells it for more.

He is a Soulja and America loves throwing money and Soulja's.
 
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I'm sure the security is on par with Parler.


Would he had any objections, if this was the Biden Phone instead?

We already have Biden phone's, it's called Lifeline. I'll pass on both but I think the winner here is obvious if you had to choose.
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The question is: which service does it use? Actually, it really doesn't matter, since none of them withhold info from the FBI/CIA for long after it's requested. I guarantee you this thing still tracks your location at a minimum.

Couldn't your cell provider track you anyway, even if your phone didn't use location services. I know they used to be able to triangulate cell phone locations. No freedom phone is going to stop that. It's also not going to stop giving up your ip address when you get on wifi, unless you specifically use a VPN.
 
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Couldn't your cell provider track you anyway, even if your phone didn't use location services. I know they used to be able to triangulate cell phone locations. No freedom phone is going to stop that. It's also not going to stop giving up your ip address when you get on wifi, unless you specifically use a VPN.

All modern phones are trackable, when you call 911 they know where you are within approximately 10 feet. Knowing your location is an inherent requirement of how they function.

It's a garbage phone dabbling in the admirable quality of encouraging people to use products other than google. That's it, the target market isn't technically inclined to make use of the limited functionality anyways.
 

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Incidentally, I'm starting my own food line for Real Americans. Starting product is patriot pizza, and it's guaranteed NOT to be made in a place where pedofilic liberals rape urang utangs, contains no trace of Critical Race Theory and - unlike regular pizza - doesn't track your whereabouts (1). It also costs four times the price of the competition, but that's the marketing price of scaring tactics for you. Either eat this, starve or - even worse - eat regular pizza. Not to influence you, but regular pizza is actually a foreign import, so it all comes down whether or not you trust foreigners.

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(1): except to check whether or not you're a liberal Democrat communist, an illegal alien, an afro American, an unregistered voter, a never Trumper or someone who otherwise acts suspicious. But Real Americans? No way.
 

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This is a painful obvious scam and I am pretty sure there are people who will actually buy this phone too, lol

Almost all tech targeted at non-technically inclined audiences is designed to take advantage of them and charge them for superfluous garbage, It's a great business model. See Apple.
 
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Conservatives, broadly, are a lot older and a lot less tech-savvy than their progressive counterparts, so they don't know any better. They're also a lot more willing to blindly trust whatever other conservatives tell them to believe. You don't have to look far to find conservatives giving money to just about any Tom, Dick, or Harry claiming to be trying to overturn the "stolen" election, and it wasn't long ago that conservative donors to the former president had their accounts bled dry because they were tricked into having their one-time donations auto-deducted instead.

This phone is absolutely a ripoff / grift.

Older people been more conservative according to census data, but I do agree we generally less tech savvy, age aside.

Then there's me- first PC was a 386, ran multiple BBS systems before the Internet really became a thing, got started learning asm and c around 11 or so. I have a 486 Toshiba laptop that still works - screen is maybe 1/3rd size of panel lol
 
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