eli5: How do online petitions work? Are they effective?
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Here in the UK, our Parliament has an online petition system that guarantees a topic will be debated if it reached a certain threshold. I believe it’s 1,000 signatures. The system uses public data to match signatures to residents, so they can be reasonably sure of the numbers.
Other than that sort of system, online petitions tend to be meaningless except as a data-harvesting tool, as the other replies have described.
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