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Here are the ones I can recall off the top of my head: * CISPA veto threat/defeat [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/cybersecurity-legislation-must-not

Here are the ones I can recall off the top of my head: * CISPA veto threat/defeat [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/cybersecurity-legislation-must-not-violate-americans-right-privacy https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/cybersecurity-legi...] * New open-access rules [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-research https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-...] * Halting use of animals in military training [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-halt-cruel-and-unnecessary-use-monkeys-army-chemical-casualty-management-training/tt2v2mc6 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-halt-c...]

dragonwriter 13y ago
The animals one obviously doesn't count [1], since the petition was created September 27th, 2011, and the order halting the use of animals was issued September 20th, 2011. [1] Barring time travel
- bobwaycott 13y ago
  Perhaps the order and the petition were quantumly entangled, thus allowing for the measurement of the petition to affect the known outcome of the order.
betterunix 13y ago
I am pretty sure the CISPA veto and the open access rules were only tangentially affected by the petitions. The open access rules were a response to the treatment of Aaron Swartz, which was creating a media storm that was causing more people to notice the general abuses of power by prosecutors in this country. The CISPA veto threat followed pressure from lobbyists and well-connected corporations. Did the petitions matter at all? Maybe, but they were not even remotely close to being sufficient to get the administration to do anything. The Obama administration already knows how people feel about the Snowden situation; the petition is basically irrelevant.

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Here are the ones I can recall off the top of my head: * CISPA veto threat/defeat [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/cybersecurity-legislation-must-not

by bbatsell 13y ago

dragonwriter 13y ago
The animals one obviously doesn't count [1], since the petition was created September 27th, 2011, and the order halting the use of animals was issued September 20th, 2011. [1] Barring time travel
- bobwaycott 13y ago
  Perhaps the order and the petition were quantumly entangled, thus allowing for the measurement of the petition to affect the known outcome of the order.
betterunix 13y ago
I am pretty sure the CISPA veto and the open access rules were only tangentially affected by the petitions. The open access rules were a response to the treatment of Aaron Swartz, which was creating a media storm that was causing more people to notice the general abuses of power by prosecutors in this country. The CISPA veto threat followed pressure from lobbyists and well-connected corporations. Did the petitions matter at all? Maybe, but they were not even remotely close to being sufficient to get the administration to do anything. The Obama administration already knows how people feel about the Snowden situation; the petition is basically irrelevant.