The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.
Petitions show how popular ideas are and galvanize people into action.
Pessimism and apathy don’t do anything.
It lets someone feel smugly superior for not participating in a group activity, and usually that’s the hilight of their week.
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I’m assimung someone who goes around to tell people “stop signing petitions” feels smugly superior? That should be pretty self evident.
Or are you thinking I meant “people who sign petitions are the ones who feel smugly superior” because that’s the exact opposite.
Sorry, I was on the defensive. I thought you were implying the second part.
No worries, I wasn’t specific enough in the first reply.
I just told you the exact process that happens.
Thes petitions are designed for the illusion of participation for us subjects
Petitions inform people about issues and serve as a good staging ground for grassroots protests.
There is that argument i guess. But this is the 2nd or 3rd pettition I have see on this subject. I signed the last ones. The responce from the government was something along the lines of its not our place to tell businesses what to do.
Out of all petitions I have signed and I know it comes off that I’m bored of the inaction (because I am) i do sign the ones that pique my interest in and have yet to see one that produced a different outcome tgat I outlined which includes 1 or 2 that breached 7 digits worth of signatures.
There is a new government formed since the last British petition.
The performance i have seen from that new government is a change in name only
Wee after thought Edit. If they gave a shit they could have turned up to the “debate” when they were in opposition. It’s the literally same people