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It costs little to nothing to participate, and the E(X) is somewhere between 0 and saving Net Neutrality - aka non-negative, no downside - it's not like you los
by SkyMarshal 13y ago
It costs little to nothing to participate, and the E(X) is somewhere between 0 and saving Net Neutrality - aka non-negative, no downside - it's not like you lose your firstborn if the petition fails.
And yet the majority of these petitions fail anyway, so the few that do provide some useful signal, even if we can't know the extent to which it influences the decision-making process.
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoThe obvious downside would be the typical slacktivism worry that by allowing an easy, ineffectual way for people to voice their opinions you're reducing the likelihood that they'll bother to go for more difficult but more effective ways; sort of a crowding-out effect for effort.