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Petition the BSA to change its policy of discrimination
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I can tell you a example of a online petition that worked, warhammer 40k space marines would only get a pc version if enough people signed a petition the company posted...
 RE: Petition the BSA to change its policy of discrimination
April 21, 2011 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2011 at 10:59 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(April 21, 2011 at 2:48 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:(April 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: DT is right. Online petitions are the equivalent of prayer. Totally fucking useless. I agree with #1 #2 who gives their real address when signing a petition? It's not as if anyone will ever check.  I have no doubt a commercial decision could be made as the result of an on-line partition. However, I'd love to see some evidence of a political decision made on that basis. We ( allegedly) live under a system of representative democracy, not Athenian rule by consensus. Political decisions are made on party lines. Public opinion is ignored,except where it seems to have a likely effect on an election or party funding. Want political influence? Form a lobby group with tens of thousands of members and/or throw quite a few $million at each party. The US political system seems to me to be the most corrupt in the developed world. However, the differences between least and most corrupt are not great.  (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? 
No, it's not, but I'm not going to hold any false hope that it will get the BSA to change their policies.
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 (April 21, 2011 at 10:22 pm)Ashendant Wrote: I can tell you a example of a online petition that worked, warhammer 40k space marines would only get a pc version if enough people signed a petition the company posted... It makes sense that computer companies would listen to a group willing to go online to petition software be sold to them so they can play it online...infact this may be the best use for online petitions.. to petition things online for online things.... ..LOL..kind of simple, dont you think? Or was I being redundant? |
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