Quote Originally Posted by www.chronocompendium.com
Petition is historically a potentiate for moving substantial obstacles and effecting widespread change. The right to do so for protection against governmental grievances is even written into the First Amendment. However, as stated, these are for petitions, as in copies of hand-written signatures with real life sources and official documents that verify its genuineness. Internet petitions lack all of the above. They're firstly set up a dime a dozen, usually on topsites that link to hundreds of them. Secondly, they depend on e-mails and names to serve as signatures; this is inherently flawed -- where's the proof? If one has ever quickly faked registration info to sign up for a forum, then it should become apparently how easily it is to fake identity (and in this case, signatures). This totally undermines considering the signatures as coming from real people, since one person can virtually fake thousands of signings.

But wait! There's more. Considering the above, also take into mind how internet petitions are delivered -- yes, they have to be given electronically through corporate feedback. This is an item with no equivalent in the physical plane whatsoever, and it also must be delivered in the form of the hyperlink. The result? Not all customer support representatives feel like checking -- and in some cases, are even authorized to check -- linked material in e-mails sent to them. The efforts of the petitioner are condemned to waste, and even if the support helper delivers and passes up the internet petition in the chain of corporate command, it will be dismissed for the reasons in the last paragraph. It's a lose-lose situation; the petitioner wastes his time, and so does Square Enix. Real petitions work because they're not only undeniably signed by real people, but are physical and weighty. A real petition, as in a meaty stack of papers slammed on the desk of a corporation man, is tangible and effective. Virtual petitions will never have that kind of clout.