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It’s still a change.org petition, which as far as I’ve ever seen or heard, merely grants the petition to be responded to by the president. And the current president could not give less of a fuck.

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nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

unless I am confusing it with another petition thing?

Yes. Obama had a petition thing directly on the Whitehouse website, and he would respond to those that got enough signatures. Trump obviously deleted it.

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives.

However, since the IA appears to have started this petition themselves, I agree with the other commenter that…

if the IA want these signatures, perhaps they need them.

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- madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.
  
  This is precisely why I asked the question, because I feel the same way.
  
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s got no legal standing, but as many things in life, when you want to advocate for something and you want to say that something is important to people, the arguments are a lot easier to make when you have “evidence.” A bunch of signatures can serve this purpose. This petition could even be just a first step, to be followed by others methods or actions.

Another function it could serve is getting people engaged and aware of the issue, spreading further awareness.

Another function is getting the contact information of people willing to do something about this issue. They could later leverage that to ask for other actions that are more meaningful.

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