[LINK] Citizen democracy in action -- make DDOS legal form of protest

[Jan Whitaker]

Linkers may have been reading about the use of White House petitions 
for various issues, including a recent one about deporting Piers 
Morgan because he is advocating gun control in the US. I had a look 
at the petition site and found an interesting use of the technology 
with 204 active petitions. This one caught my attention for Link:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-distributed-denial-service-ddos-legal-form-protesting/X3drjwZY
Make, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), a legal form of protesting.

What is unfortunate is that the petition argument information is 
limited. It's like they took the limitations of a paper petition form 
and didn't take advantage of the function of the internet to allow 
for anything else about the topic. This is a cursory view, so they 
may allow for embedded links to more info.

Out of curiosity to see what exists in Australia, I did a search 
[online petition australian government] and found
http://www.gopetition.com.au/ - a private operation that is 
international with an Australian presence
http://www.petitiononlineaustralia.com/ - another private one that is 
similar to the first one
http://www.change.org/en-AU - Change - same deal

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/en/work-of-assembly/petitions/overview/info_on_epetitions 
- an attempt by the Queensland govt

http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns - GetUp! which is filtered through 
the group rather than open to the citizens directly

I thought there was supposed to be a Web 2.0 process by the 
Commonwealth for this purpose. It's not turning up in the Google data set.

Jan


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