Take a Minute, Sign the petition for Net Neutrality

[MothBalls]

Mainly for US users.

https://secure.freepress.net/site/Ad...rAction&id=356

For those interested, here's a good FAQ on the topic: http://www.savetheinternet.com/faq


I'm aware a thread already exists on this topic. Didn't want this to be buried on page 2. This isn't the discussion of it, just offering people the chance to sign the petition.

[SteamWake]

Before you rush off and save the interwebs take a moment to view the petitions authors home website and judge for your self.

Reform Media, Transform Democracy

https://secure.freepress.net/site/SP...wxum0p2.app43b

[MothBalls]

Which word is it that scares you?

[Letum]

And whichever word it is, how does that effect the petition?

[SteamWake]

Just letting folks know that the petition is authored by a liberal activist group with an agenda.

Thought they might want to know that before they sign.

[MothBalls]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Just letting folks know that the petition is authored by a liberal activist group with an agenda.

Thought they might want to know that before they sign.

I thought it was about net neutrality. Does it matter who sponsored it?

So what is the person who sponsored it was black, or Chinese, or a woman, would that matter to you?

[Oberon]

If you sign this, you're signing COMMUNISM!!!

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Just letting folks know that the petition is authored by a liberal activist group with an agenda.

Thought they might want to know that before they sign.

Uh Steamwake, everyone has an agenda... everyone

Would it make any difference if this was authored by a conservative activist group with an agenda?

Or a moderate activist group with an agenda?

Or the Pastafarian activist group with an agenda?

It is a BS online petition, who really cares who is behind it? It is not like it is going to accomplish anything.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Platapus

It is not like it is going to accomplish anything.

I dunno about that.
It gets passed around and discussed like it has here and that is one way
for people to be aware of the issues behind it and even gets a little
political activism out of us Joes.

That's all a good way to help a cause.

[CaptainHaplo]

Well, in all honesty, it also SHOULD make people go - hmm, let me look into this, see what its about, and make an informed decision based on information not provided by those who want my "signature".

[Platapus]

Doubtful.

If people are really serious about this, then they need to construct a real petition actually signed by people in the individual politician's constituency. And then mail the hard copy to his or her office. That's how things are done.

An online petition where anyone can put any false name/address and will contain addresses outside a specific politician's constituency is easy to ignore.

If you were a politician, and you received an e-mail like this with supposedly accurate signatures from people who don't vote for you, would you really take it seriously? It will get deleted by some staffer before it even gets to the politician's inbox.

Hardcopy delivered by the mail with voter's names on it is the way to get the attention of a politician. Sure it is easier to go to some website, but it is that ease that decreases the petition's effect.

If a politician can see that people who can vote for him/her are willing to expend the effort to make a real petition, pass it around, verify names/addresses and present it in a serious way to the politician, that will get their attention.

Sometimes the old ways are still the most effective.

But they take effort. The real test is how committed are the people supporting this effort? Just committed enough to visit a website? Or committed enough to make the effort to formally redress their grievances to their representative?