Here's what the other side gets wrong. They'll frame this as freedom versus politeness. It's not. It's about who carries the cost. A five minute voice note costs the sender almost nothing and dumps the whole burden on the receiver, who can't skim it, search it, or reference it later. Somebody in a meeting or on a train is now hostage to a monologue. That's a fragile transaction, and fragile transactions break under stress. Sixty seconds is roughly what a listener can absorb and actually act on. Social norms exist to catch these asymmetries early. Nobody's banning anything. We're just pricing the cost back in.