A 22-year-old German man caused a minor stir on Twitter this week when he tweeted a video pitching a “Freedom Phone” he claims will let people use apps free of censorship or tracking.
In the video, Erik Finman describes himself as “the youngest Bitcoin millionaire” and shares images of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to suggest they would have been censored in today’s political climate.
“I made it in Silicon Valley, and I’ve accomplished a lot in my life already, but now I’m leaving Big Tech to fight for free speech,” Finman says, touting his $499 smartphone as a way to stick it to tech moguls like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.
But despite his lofty claims, Finman appears to have notched few concrete business achievements beyond a 2018 Business Insider profile titled, “The 19-year-old who made his fortune in bitcoin says if you don’t become a millionaire in the next 10 years, it’s your own fault.”
As for the Freedom Phone, skeptics on Twitter noted that it appears to be a wh
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