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   The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a   
   07 Sep 21 13:07:02   
   
   From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their   
   iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political   
   tool.   
      
   By Jack Nicas   
      
   It was a pitch tuned for a politically polarized audience. Erik   
   Finman, a 22-year-old who called himself the world's youngest Bitcoin   
   millionaire, posted a video on Twitter for a new kind of smartphone   
   that he said would liberate Americans from their "Big Tech overlords."   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/technology/freedom-phone-smar   
   phone-conservatives.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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