I really want to start a mutual aid service where I give people free tech, like Google Pixels pre-loaded with GrapheneOS, but I haven’t seen many examples of how mutual aid works with expensive stuff. Does anyone have any ideas of how to equitably distribute such phones?
I like this idea but I think you should start with less expensive things that are needed more by your community and if you can gain enough funds then also distribute privacy centric tech. You could also write about how people in your community can increase privacy and prevent the collection of their data in easy ways as a start as that would create more of a community need for privacy respecting phones like you suggested. I hope this will work out for you I am intruiged by the combination of privacy and mutual aid!