Conservative pundits hawked Mr. Finman’s Freedom Phone, and his video amassed 1.8 million views. Mr. Finman soon had thousands of orders for the $500 device. First, he received bad early reviews for a plan to simply put his software on a cheap Chinese phone. And then there was the unglamorous work of shipping phones, hiring customer-service agents, collecting sales taxes and dealing with regulators. “But I guess it’s kind of like how you hope for world peace, in the sense you don’t think it’s going to happen.”

Source: International New York Times September 06, 2021 09:00 UTC