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[themaguffin]

1. that's great, but the only signatures that matter are the people who can do just that.

[Polybius]

2. Not even the people can do that

She's in there for life.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Internet petitions do nothing but harvest your personal data

They are fundraising mechanisms, not agents of change.

[brooklynite]

6. But they let you feel virtuous...like voting in a Facebook poll.

[brooklynite]

4. So what?

"Signing" a MOVEON petition will accomplish nothing but putting your contact information into MOVEON's fundraising apparatus.

[onenote]

5. A moveon petition calling for Trump to be disqualified under the 14th amendment got over 500,000 signatures.

How well did that work out?

I suspect a petition campaign started on FoxNews calling for Judge Merchan or Judge Chutkan to be removed could get 100,000 signatures in a nano-second.

[GreenWave]

7. And yet Chile voted no and ousted Pinochet!