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New Freedom Phone Isn’t What It Appears to Be
This faux phone risks running into the same problems faced by the conservative social networks of the past.
Ever since the rise of Donald Trump, conservative dissatisfaction with the technology industry has skyrocketed, with Trump and other Republican politicians frequently accusing “big tech” of bias and censorship towards conservatives. This tension existed even before Trump was suspended from Twitter following the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6.
This has manifested itself as the launch of a series of social networks, including Gab, Parler, and most recently Gettr, geared towards serving as conservative alternatives to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. However, those networks have frequently run into trouble. The type of content moderation their backers claim to disdain in the mainstream social media companies is necessary for running any type of functional social network especially if a person doesn’
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