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Tattle tale. Busy body. Nosy person. Informant. Rat. Snitch. Those are my words. I checked with an LLM and got a considerably longer list. It makes sense that
by Nevermark 2y ago
Tattle tale. Busy body. Nosy person. Informant. Rat. Snitch.
Those are my words. I checked with an LLM and got a considerably longer list.
It makes sense that people need to report crimes that are near universally viewed as significant and unacceptable, and don't require speculative snooping. Like reporting someone beating up someone in a bar in public.
But this busy body behavior takes on other tones when tied to highly controversial laws (often not even majority supported in jurisdictions where they exist), and are about monitoring and controlling people's private lives.
The fact that these kinds of laws will only be enforced sporadically, turns surveilling and reporting into convenient tools for misanthropes, trolls and grudge bearers to opportunistically express vindictiveness under the guise of good citizenship.