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The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives

34 points by carride 5y ago

imglorp 5y ago
Someone has identified an especially gullible--vulnerable even--market sector. https://www.nationalmemo.com/qanon-cult-2651308726 https://www.nationalmemo.com/qanon-cult-2651308726 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-fr...
bsima 5y ago
Freedom is only for conservatives, apparently.
- handrous 5y ago
  There's freedom, then there's "freedom", the branding term used to chase a certain market. This is clearly the latter.
  - bsima 5y ago
    Thank you captain obvious
- deleted 5y ago
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- lnxg33k1 5y ago
  a lot of left wing ideas are now represented more by right wing, if anything just because left wing today is more of a antiworkers, elitist, classist bunch of neoliberals
  - xyzzy21 5y ago
    Strictly the left has switched places with what was once associated with the right. Today the right is the party of populism while the left is the party of Statism, centralized top-down control and authoritarianism under the control of the 1%. Of course, the Democratic Party opposed abolition of slavery in the 19th century and the Republican Party was in large part formed to fight slavery. The Democratic Party supported by commission and omission: the KKK, Jim Crow, opposition to the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s, etc. President Johnson specifically said of the CRA that blacks and people supporting it would live to regret it because they had a plan to use welfare to destroy the black community (which they pretty much succeeded at). And now we've seen that TRUE personality return.
- vharuck 5y ago
  There's "free" as in beer, "free" as in free speech, and "free" as in Freedom Fries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
guidoism 5y ago
Interesting that “a million dollars” allows him to fly in jets and burn money
Ajay-p 5y ago
Interesting concept. I think there is a market for these types of devices, catering to niches in the market. A phone for liberals, a phone for conservatives, and a phone for...everyone else?? "Tongue in cheek" maybe but I am surprised that phones are not being built and sold to narrower markets, for example sports fans. A phone made to watch, read, and engage in sports. Is there no market available for these?
- laomai 5y ago
  Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Narrower market phones by OEMs sounds like it’ll lead eventually to the ‘Easter phone’ or ‘mothers days phone’ — rampant consumerism with bad experiences that wind up in a garage sale, thrift store or land fill. Better to have a quality product with custom case imho.

34 points by carride 5y ago

Someone has identified an especially gullible--vulnerable even--market sector. https://www.nationalmemo.com/qanon-cult-2651308726 https://www.nationalmemo.com/qanon-cult-2651308726 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-fr...

bsima 5y ago

Freedom is only for conservatives, apparently.

handrous 5y ago
There's freedom, then there's "freedom", the branding term used to chase a certain market. This is clearly the latter.
- bsima 5y ago
  Thank you captain obvious
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lnxg33k1 5y ago
a lot of left wing ideas are now represented more by right wing, if anything just because left wing today is more of a antiworkers, elitist, classist bunch of neoliberals
- xyzzy21 5y ago
  Strictly the left has switched places with what was once associated with the right. Today the right is the party of populism while the left is the party of Statism, centralized top-down control and authoritarianism under the control of the 1%. Of course, the Democratic Party opposed abolition of slavery in the 19th century and the Republican Party was in large part formed to fight slavery. The Democratic Party supported by commission and omission: the KKK, Jim Crow, opposition to the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s, etc. President Johnson specifically said of the CRA that blacks and people supporting it would live to regret it because they had a plan to use welfare to destroy the black community (which they pretty much succeeded at). And now we've seen that TRUE personality return.
vharuck 5y ago
There's "free" as in beer, "free" as in free speech, and "free" as in Freedom Fries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

guidoism 5y ago

Interesting that “a million dollars” allows him to fly in jets and burn money

Ajay-p 5y ago

Interesting concept. I think there is a market for these types of devices, catering to niches in the market. A phone for liberals, a phone for conservatives, and a phone for...everyone else?? "Tongue in cheek" maybe but I am surprised that phones are not being built and sold to narrower markets, for example sports fans. A phone made to watch, read, and engage in sports. Is there no market available for these?

laomai 5y ago
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Narrower market phones by OEMs sounds like it’ll lead eventually to the ‘Easter phone’ or ‘mothers days phone’ — rampant consumerism with bad experiences that wind up in a garage sale, thrift store or land fill. Better to have a quality product with custom case imho.