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They've started a petition... http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-yahoo-from-buying-tumblr/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=system&utm_campaign=Send%2Bto%2BFrie

• _ak 13y ago
  Has any internet petition ever worked?
  • ricardobeat 13y ago
    For issues where a public petition might matter, yes. Usually they serve as social proof to press lawmakers and other public figures to deal with something. Quantifying popular opinions/demands is a powerful tool. In this case it's just a pointless show of anger by teenagers.
  • LinaLauneBaer 13y ago
    Yes. It more or less saved Germany from internet censorship. http://www.netzturbine.de/en/internet/zensursula-deutsches-internet-ist-gegen-zensur-und-epetitioniert-bundestagzensursula-german-internet-rises-against-censorship-and-does-epetition-bundestag http://www.netzturbine.de/en/internet/zensursula-deutsches-i...
    • _ak 13y ago
      I was actually thinking about petitions about private companies and their business decisions, not politics. If Tumblr or a Yahoo had their own corporate petition platform, then yes, but comparing a petition on some random website with a petition on the website of the German Bundestag is like comparing apples to orangutans.
      • LinaLauneBaer 13y ago
        Sorry. This was not clear to me. I thought you were talking about any internet petition. :)
• ricardobeat 13y ago
  Already at 150k. Looks like Yahoo made a good purchase!
  • artursapek 13y ago
    I love the extra comma on that petition site. ,149,476