Change.org

MrGask · 22 de Nov de 2013

Has this website every successfully changed anything? I know it often meets its signature goals, but since those signatures are rarely registered voters (or even from the right country), has this ever resulted in real world change?

I couldn't find any instances where it changed anything, so I was wondering if anyone else had.

ilovejesus69 · 22 de Nov de 2013

MrGask dijo: ↑

Has this website every successfully changed anything? I know it often meets its signature goals, but since those signatures are rarely registered voters (or even from the right country), has this ever resulted in real world change?

I couldn't find any instances where it changed anything, so I was wondering if anyone else had.

I hope not. I'm not good with change.

Twaek · 22 de Nov de 2013

Wikipedia dijo:

On March 8, 2012, a petition entitled "Prosecute the killer of our son, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin" was posted on Change.org. The petition received over 2.2 million signatures – at that time the largest number of signatures for any campaign in Change.org's history. The petition called for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, who, on February 26, 2012, shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. Zimmerman, armed with a 9 mm gun, said he was acting in self-defense against the unarmed teenager, and he was set free the night of the killing without being charged. Social media technology (including Change.org's petition) played a pivotal role in spreading awareness about the killing. On April 11, 2012, Zimmerman was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He stood trial in the months of June and July and was acquitted of all charges on July 13, 2013.

On October 1, 2011, Molly Katchpole, a "22 year old nanny with two jobs" in Washington D.C., started a petition on Change.org "asking Bank of America and their CEO Bryan Moynihan to drop its unexpected new $5/month banking fee" for debit card customers. Less than one month later, 300,000 signatures were collected and resulted in the bank formally announcing to drop the new banking fee. U.S. President Barack Obama signed the petition; U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, the Democratic senator from Illinois, responded to Bank of America and the petition on Twitter; and it prompted the U.S. Congress to "look at legislation for out-of-control banking fees".

In December 2011, a fourth-grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts, launched the "Lorax Petition Project" through Change.org requesting Universal Studios to include more of an environmental message on its website and trailer for its upcoming film, The Lorax, a classic Dr. Seuss children's story. The website and trailer lacked the important message from the book, "to help the environment". The petition collected over 57,000 signatures (including Edward Norton's), and on January 26, 2012, the studio updated the website "with the environmental message the kids had requested".

On February 2, 2012, a petition on Change.org started by Stef Gray, a 23-year-old graduate in New York, received around 110,000 signers (as of February 5, 2012) in response to Sallie Mae, the "nation's largest private student-loan provider", which resulted in the company changing its forbearance fee policy.

In November 2013, John Doe of Arlington, Texas launched a petition against changes made to the YouTube commenting system by Google. The changes force YouTube users to create an account on Google+ and also removes the "reply" mechanism on comments unless they were posted on Google+. This petition received over 100,000 signatures in less than a week, and over 200,000 within two weeks.

Zimmerman, Lorax, Youtube comments. You tell me.

oddguy · 22 de Nov de 2013

It's called Change.org for the change they get each time you click an ad.

Solution · 22 de Nov de 2013

oddguy dijo: ↑

It's called Change.org for the change they get each time you click an ad.

This should be a weekly column...
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Fat Rambo · 13 de Dec de 2013

"Spare some change for Change.org?"

PsychoSensei · 28 de Dec de 2013

Fuck this site. They have accomplished nothing except for dumping metric tons of spam into my e-mail every single day since I made the mistake of signing one of their petitions.

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