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.
I have seen these petitions in action. It reaches the official responce threshold. The responce is
It reaches debate in commons. It’s scheduled for mid Wednesday morning and read out to 1 old duffer who went in there for a nap
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.
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.