Comments on: White House petition: fix copyright for 21st century libraries

By: cjporkchop

cjporkchop — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:00 +0000

I have a whitehouse.gov account, but there’s something screwy going on right now. I sign in over and over but it doesn’t show me as being signed in, so I can’t sign the petition. Cookies are on.

By: nowimnothing

nowimnothing — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out Cory!
And yes I am aware how ineffective some petitions have been, but there have been a few with decent responses. I was not really hoping to get 25,000 right off the bat for this, but I figured if I could get it searchable on the site, that would at least give a bit more exposure to the plight of libraries in the digital age.
Only 40 more signatures to go…

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Going very, very slowly. Why? Here’s why:
A whitehouse-dot-gov account is required to sign Petitions.

How many people concerned with their online privacy are willing to explicitly tell the very heart of government “Here I am, this is my name, street address and IP”.

Also, it seems the petition requires USA residency.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Link seems to be down. That or it’s being crushed by the number of people stampeding on over. Kinda hope it’s the latter.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:19:00 +0000

I think this is why Obama’s abs are so cut; every morning he reads our petitions and laughs deep, rollicking belly-laughs for 30 minutes.