# New York tries to ban ipod's and phones on the streets

**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560
**Category:** Linkblog
**Created:** [January 27, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560 "2011-01-27T18:29:05Z")
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### Author: ![gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/gink_04/32/254_2.png) [@gink\_04](https://fixed.org.au/u/gink_04)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560/1 "2011-01-27T18:29:05Z")

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[Personal Tech - New York Mulls iPod Ban on City Streets](http://www.toptechnews.com/news/New-York-Mulls-iPod-Ban-on-City-Streets/story.xhtml?story_id=0200029PQQWK)

no more I pod zombies, just stupid people

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### Author: ![BPM](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@BPM](https://fixed.org.au/u/BPM)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560/2 "2011-01-27T22:00:48Z")

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that’s crazy. next they’ll try and ban guns…

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### Author: ![DICE](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/dice/32/185_2.png) [@DICE](https://fixed.org.au/u/DICE)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560/3 "2011-01-28T03:16:48Z")

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not totally unrelated…

[iPods to blame for total eclipse of the art, says Hockney - Technology](http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/technologys-total-eclipse-of-the-art/2007/06/13/1181414383931.html)  
And then two years later…  
[David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical – Engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/11/david-hockney-paints-with-his-iphone-results-not-typical/)

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### Author: ![The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/the_jams/32/212_2.png) [@The\_JAMS](https://fixed.org.au/u/The_JAMS)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560/4 "2011-01-28T06:27:42Z")

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why does this politician want to stop one of the few remaining forms of darwinism at work among our species?  
ipods don’t kill people, people kill people!

also. i’ve never cared much for hockney’s paintings

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### Author: ![DICE](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/dice/32/185_2.png) [@DICE](https://fixed.org.au/u/DICE)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/new-york-tries-to-ban-ipods-and-phones-on-the-streets/49560/5 "2011-01-28T15:18:23Z")

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His splash paintings are great. But his iPhone paintings … hell no!!