(April 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: DT is right. Online petitions are the equivalent of prayer. Totally fucking useless.In the "old" days of e-mail petitions, I would agree with you. But Change.org has done an excellent job of creating a petition site that actually DOES work. So much so, in fact, that Chinese hackers attacked it the other day:
http://blog.change.org/2011/04/clinton-c...ic-rights/
You can read more about their successes here:
http://www.change.org/info/how-an-online-petition-works
In any event, it takes just a couple of minutes to sign. Is it really that big of a deal?


