• sevan@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I suspect its being banned because of people using it in public without headphones or earbuds. I was submitted to that experience for an hour+ in a waiting room one time and now I fully supported the ban to prevent it from ever happening again.

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        4 hours ago

        Have you met people? They are unpredictable. You might get shot just for asking somebody politely to turn off their speaker.

        In fact, I was once on a bus where somebody got stabbed because they asked some guy to stop playing music through his boombox (yes, I’m old).

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            3 hours ago

            Yeah…

            I think people are likely to be as violent in most countries, but usually they have to use knives or acid or something like that. For what it’s worth, I would far rather be shot than have acid thrown on me.

            But yeah. It’s a realistic thing that you have to take into account that you could be shot if you anger somebody.