Stop the E-Parasite Act
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Stop the E-Parasite Act
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Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#2Do these petitions do any good? That is, is it even worthwhile to sign it? Or is our time better spent elsewhere.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#3This will get ignored like the "Remove "under God" from the pledge" petition and the "tax Marijuana like alcohol and tobacco" petition.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#4Do these petitions do any good? That is, is it even worthwhile to sign it? Or is our time better spent elsewhere.
There was actually a meta-petition[1] recently that was asking for the White House to pay more attention to these petitions, so it seems like these petitions are mostly ignored
[1] https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/actually-...
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#5Do these petitions do any good? That is, is it even worthwhile to sign it? Or is our time better spent elsewhere.
The petitions are looked at if they receive enough signatures, right now this one needs a little over 23,000 more signatures by November 30th.
I would view it as one more avenue of making your opinion known to elected officials. In addition to informing your congressperson and senator to try to prevent the bill from passing this would be a way to endorse a veto from the executive branch.
I believe it does as much good as anything else you can do in the amount of time it takes to sign it.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#6Do these petitions do any good? That is, is it even worthwhile to sign it? Or is our time better spent elsewhere.
I've been utterly disappointed at the handful of official responses so far (http://blog.norml.org/2011/10/29/white-house-response-to-nor...), but it's worthwhile giving it a shot, no?
While you're there, I'm also a fan of the petitions that the petitions be taken seriously.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#7This will get ignored like the "Remove "under God" from the pledge" petition and the "tax Marijuana like alcohol and tobacco" petition.
Here's the most popular petition to take the petitions seriously: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petiti...
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#8While I definitely support the notion of this petition, it's time that people realize that things like these won't do shit, to put it bluntly.
To stop this madness, we have to attack and bring down the people who cause this retardation - the content industries. They won't somehow come to their senses and stop pushing for insane laws and regulations.
It's a very dangerous illusion that petty petitions will change anything, at least on their own. Fight the real enemy, and fight it with all means necessary - may those be alternative licenses, spreading the word, piracy, or straight out aggression[1]. Until the content industries are either out of power or simply gone (and I doubt the former can be achieved without the latter), this war on freedom for the sake of corporate profits will continue.
[1]: I'm talking about stuff like Operation Payback and Anonymous in general. I dislike calling it "cyber warfare" because the term is retarded newspeak, but it's essentially what I mean.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#9Do these petitions do any good? That is, is it even worthwhile to sign it? Or is our time better spent elsewhere.
I find it even stranger that this petition is on whitehouse.gov. The real issue though is that this bill wont die, I'm sick of hearing of its lunacy and the fact that it's even in the house irks me to no end. That's why I signed it.
Re: Stop the E-Parasite Act
#10This will get ignored like the "Remove "under God" from the pledge" petition and the "tax Marijuana like alcohol and tobacco" petition.
Here's the most popular petition to take the petitions seriously: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petiti...
This one[1] has more signatures
[1] https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/actually-...