Sign the Petition to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal

Re:Sign the Petition to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal by d4mi3n on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:36AM (#5127688)

Generally, effective petitions need to do two things:

1. Put pressure on a specific person or group of people to make a specific change.

2. Bring attention of an issue to a larger audience (i.e.: the press, a congressmen's constituents, etc)

Having those things goes a long way to making these online petitions useful, but without them you'd just end blowing around a lot of hot air.

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Re:Sign the Petition to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal by logn on Monday January 28, 2013 @04:36AM (#5127819)

1. No pressure is brought (Obama's not even up for re-election, but I wouldn't feel differently if he were) 2. Usually the only people who know about a petition are already aware of the issue (case in point, unlocking cellphones petition on HN)

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