What’s a petition going to do? Is there any evidence that a bunch of people signing a petition is any more effective than a bunch of people just asking?
On the other hand, it often seems like the online kind of petition is just a away to dissipate the anger and need to do something of people, before they actually do something with significant effect (such as demonstrations and strikes) - they sign the petition and feel they’ve “done something” lowering their want to do something about it, when they really haven’t done amything with the least bit of effectiveness, since a few tens of thousands signing an online petition in a country of 65 million people is something the authorities can simply ignore with zero concern.
What’s a petition going to do? Is there any evidence that a bunch of people signing a petition is any more effective than a bunch of people just asking?
Petitions try to show how many people actually care.
If 10.000 people signed the petition it shows that there’s more concern than when there’s just 3 people who actually take the effort to say something
On the other hand, it often seems like the online kind of petition is just a away to dissipate the anger and need to do something of people, before they actually do something with significant effect (such as demonstrations and strikes) - they sign the petition and feel they’ve “done something” lowering their want to do something about it, when they really haven’t done amything with the least bit of effectiveness, since a few tens of thousands signing an online petition in a country of 65 million people is something the authorities can simply ignore with zero concern.