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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. :)