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.
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.