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Ban the use of electronic device loudspeakers in public & require headphone use

Submitted by Katie Major on Wednesday 14th January 2026

Published on Friday 20th February 2026

Current status: Open

Open until: Thursday 20th August 2026

Current Signatures: 106
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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electronic ~ Embarrassing ~ Media ~ Rude ~ Social media ~ Spaces ~ training

Petition Action

Ban the use of electronic device loudspeakers in public & require headphone use

Petition Details

Ban any use of electronic device loudspeakers in public places, such as using your loudspeaker for phone calls, private conversations, videos, music, social media, etc, to protect others who don’t wish to listen to the content they’re playing.

Additional Information

Require the use of headphones to listen to this content in public spaces. I believe it’s an invasion of one’s downtime / travel time / private time / personal time when members of the public play whatever they want on their electronic devices on loudspeaker in spaces where they can wear headphones to listen to their content of choice.

It is invasive for many around them, can be rude and embarrassing if they are having conversations on phone calls which the whole train carriage of people may not wish to hear.


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