How does online petitions work (like change.org) and how are they effective?
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There are certain laws in different countries/states/provinces that if a petition gets a certain amount of signatures, it has to legally be viewed by the court. Kind of depends where you live… but they do work, and they have validity
It depends. Sometimes the group organizing it will show the list of people to elected officials as an act of power. A large petition basically says “50k voters want you do whatever on issue x”. The more people, the more pursuasive it is. They can be very effective locally, but can be harder to scale nationally.
It can also be a way to build a network of people who care about an issue, who can then communicate and organize around it.
Its never been revealed or indicated that specifically the change.org petitions have ever had an impact.
Some of the things they were petitioning have changed, but there is nothing saying the change.org portion impacted anything
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