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Brickbat: I Can't Hear You Now

Christian Haugen / photo on flickr


A village council in Bihar, India, has banned women from using cellphones, saying such use promoted extramarital sex and leads young people to elope. The Sunderbari council will fine single women $180 and married women $36.60 if they are caught using a cellphone in public.

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