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Originally Posted by D_Advocate
Who truly represent the majority of UK broadband users ? Methinks not.
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It represents the view of a portion of the UK broadband users who are savvy enough to realise that this is a system that's open to abuse, and who are willing to do the research on such matters and find conflicts with the letter of the law. Especially when also compared to other polls on other websites such as the one on ISPreview (
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/p...?archive_id=60)
To disregard it simply because it's based on the opinion of the technosavvy would be like (dipping into my own area of expertise here) disregarding the dangers of E. coli gaining pYV simply because it only concerns microbiologists and doctors.
For those of you who don't know, pYV is the genetic element that gives the bacteria that causes plague its ability to infect people.
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Yeah .. people love petitions - they are so easy, but mostly ineffective and subject to abuse by those with many throw-away email addresses. Just look at many other petitions on there ... nuff said.
D_A
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The key thing about this site is that as each online signature is linked to a UK address, it's entirely possible to confirm the signatures by checking against the voting registers. The data is verifiable, even if it has yet to be verified. Another thing to remember would be the number of people who have written repeatedly to assorted figures of authority (transcripts of letters and other communications are lurking in the many pages of this thread). I myself have written many letters, but did not attend the protest due to financial issues (having graduated from my BSc course today and being hit in the face with the full realisation of the student debt, coupled with current unemployment), health issues (I don't recall who it was, but I recall one of our posters pointing out that they had a hospital appointment that could not be postphoned on the day of the protest) and other issues.