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The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Your most trivial missteps are increasingly ripe for exposure online, reports the Wall Street Journal, thanks to cheap cameras and entrepreneurs hoping to profit from websites devoted to the exposure. From the article: 'The most trivial missteps by ordinary folks are increasingly ripe for exposure as well. There is a proliferation of new sites dedicated to condemning offenses ranging from bad parking and leering to littering and general bad behavior. One site documents locations where people have failed to pick up after their dogs. Capturing newspaper-stealing neighbors on video is also an emerging genre. Helping drive the exposés are a crop of entrepreneurs who hope to sell advertising and subscriptions.' But other factors are at work, including a return to shame as a check on social behavior, says an MIT professor."
"... and Jehovah's Witnesses going door-to-door distrbing the peace ..."
Annoying as they are, they pale in comparison to billboards and the likes. Get rid of the big and permanent stuff, and then focus on the more minor and transient nuisances.
Amen to that. What I hate even worse are the laws restricting clothelines and many easy to grow plants from your property. I personally like dandelions, but if I ever dared grow them I would be running afoul of the local law.