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Timcast IRL #337 - Censor Proof FreedomPhone Sparks Establishment PANIC w/Erik Finman

Timcast IRL

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4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join youngest Bitcoin billionaire and FreedomPhone entrepreneur Erik Finman to discuss Erik's invention, the FreedomPhone, and analyze some of the smear pieces that have been written about Erik, as well as break down how the social media algorithm drove the left insane, and answer some frequently-asked questions about the device.

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0:00.0

A bunch of Republicans criticized Joe Biden saying that he was acting like Fidel Castro or something

0:05.1

that effect because of the censorship that the Biden administration is admittedly engaging in.

0:10.3

A few things, one that they're going to be engaging phone companies to censor private text messages

0:15.4

and the other is that they are actually themselves flagging things on Facebook to be removed by Facebook,

0:22.0

which is government censorship. Well, recently news broke about something called the Freedom Phone.

0:27.7

This is the unsensurable phone and somehow the media lost or for some reason I should say,

0:34.9

they absolutely lost their minds. Now it could just be this is the grift, right? The daily beast

0:39.8

comes out and says this phone is a cheap Chinese knockoff and it's like, do you know that?

0:44.7

Or are you just speculating? And then all of a sudden these copycat articles emerge,

0:49.6

criticizing the phone with none of these people ever having tested it and no real argument against

0:54.7

it except it's made in China. All right, well, things should be made in China, I guess. Well,

0:58.6

criticized things made in China. But does that mean the phone is bad? I don't know. I've not used the

1:03.6

phone. How weird is it? And this is something that always freaks me out when a narrative emerges

1:09.9

that is definitive when no one's actually done any legwork on the journalism. No one's not nothing,

1:16.1

nothing at all. What does the phone do? What's why does it cost so much? Where any of these questions

1:22.0

answered no. But sure enough, I can Google it and find like 50 articles claiming avoid it,

1:27.6

don't buy it. It's bad news. And then to see the weirdest thing people on the right,

1:32.1

joining in, calling it a scam. And I'm like, dude, none of you guys have actually done any

1:37.2

analysis on this device. Isn't that weird that everyone just immediately jumps out in total alignment?

1:44.0

Maybe it's a garbage phone. I don't know. How about we get one and we actually start testing it

1:49.0

to see if it actually does what it's supposed to do. So we're going to talk about that. We're going

1:52.5

to talk about censorship and probably a bunch of other culture war stuff. But we're being joined by

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