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Comment on StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun.

patatahooligan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Sign the petition even if it’s surpassed 1mil signatures by the time you read this! The signatures will be verified after the petition is complete. This could lead to removal of any number of them. We don’t want to barely make it. Let’s go as high as possible!

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waspentalive@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Help a non-European understand… So, if you get enough signatures, it becomes law? Direct democracy?

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- patatahooligan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, there’s no way to automatically make something become law. A successful petition just forces the European Commission to discuss it and potentially propose legislation. Even though it’s not forcing anything to happen, there is an incentive for the commission to seriously consider it as there is probably a political cost to officially denying a motion that has proven that it concerns a large amount of people.
  
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- SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If this gets enough signatures, the EU will create a review committee, which, if they approve of the initiative, will draft a law for the European Parliament to vote on.
  
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