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		walterbell on Nov 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The first minute of every phone call is torture no... There wasn't a comparable 1:1 mapping/surveillance of device to human, but phones and public payphones were widely available in Western countries.

simtel20 on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

But not in the 2nd/3rd world or in rural areas or poorer areas in the first. I would suggest that the ubiquity was in the wealthiest sections of the 1st world, not the western world.

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