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Why the Interest in illegal cell-phone Jammers
Doug Gross
CNN.com
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Cell-phone jammers have been illegal for the past few years but this past friday we saw a huge rise in google searches on "Cell-phone Jammers". Why is this? It is because in a man in Philadelphia began using them on the busses on a day-to-day basis. The man known as "Eric" said he started using this because he is fed up with these "A lot of people are extremely loud, no sense of, just, privacy or anything," ("Eric"). This caused a boom on google for the search of these cell-phone jammers, prices ranging from less then $40 to more than $1,000. Surprisingly people won't really notice that their cell-phones are being jammed IF they are using them at the time, so if your on the bus not on your cell and a jammer is activated you will not notice and your cell won't being affected. The jammers are still illegal though so "Eric" was arrested for doing jamming these peoples cell-phones.
This is important because it is slowly spreading and it actually might help or hinder our public areas. It will help because, if jammers are used, there will be no more people blabbering away extremely loudly around you in a public place. The downside to the jammers is if someone is making an important phone call or you are expecting a call from your boss to make sure the deal went through. You will then not be able to get that phone call or you will be interrupted, and this is still why they are illegal and should not be used.
Cell phone jammers are like putting a piece of duct tape over someone’s mouth unsolicited. You are restricting their freedom of speech, which is not only protected by the constitution, but if it weren’t, you would have to be a law enforcement officer to do so legally. How would people who jam phones react if someone decided their voice was annoying and rudely duct-taped their mouth shut? It’s a repulsive idea that people would do this rather than simply ask the offending people to “shut up”—Which isn’t very polite, but a great deal more so than muting them without their consent.
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