Online petitions are pointless, amirite?

There are official government petition websites

by Other-Habit1486 5 hours ago

... yes, some of them do.

by Choice_Juggernaut 4 hours ago

Valid concern but it's still infinitely better than doing nothing

by ulowe 4 hours ago

Sometimes yes, and often enough they have a second look over a bill to check for issues that have been raised.

by CarEnvironmental 4 hours ago

If you go talk to your counsellor in your region, they will tell you they can't take action unless they know a lot of people want it. Then you bring them a letter full of signatures and they can at least take a look at it seriously.

by Sad-Focus4311 3 hours ago

No they don't

by bednarguiseppe 3 hours ago

No, I actually was referring to change.org and other similar petitions that people plaster on social media. Whether theyre used for local or federal politics, I think people who believe they'll actually change something with signatures is naive.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

That's very cool that South Korea did that but even on that page it says while the petitions were addressed, they didnt necessarily change anything.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

Depends on which one it is. Change.org is meaningless, but the ones that're run through websites where the government legally has to look at it if it hits a certain number of signatures aren't pointless.

by sauerpriscilla 2 hours ago

online petitions absolutely do work. if they don't get the amount of signatures required then it won't do anything, sure. but the ones on official government websites are debated once the amount of signatures are reached

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

Well, they are.

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

agreed. petitions never actually did anything. the required signitures are so low that id just laugh it off.

by yoshiko73 2 hours ago

Oh so you when you get a big list of names and no other consequences you wouldn't listen?

by Anonymous 2 hours ago