[ale] [OT] White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking

[Lightner, Jeff]

As an FYI:

The number of signatures for petitions deals with when the Obama White House will decide they need to respond.  NOT with whether they will respond the way you want.

For example the petition to let Texas secede from the US because it is not legally part of the US (according to the petition's authors) is unlikely to go anywhere despite the number of signatures on it.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ron Frazier (ALE)
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:24 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] [OT] White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking

Hi all,

This came from another forum I'm on.  This petition is getting close to 100,000 signatures.  If it goes over that, we may get the right to unlock our phones back.

Sincerely,

Ron

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"Sign a whitehouse.gov petition by Saturday and, if the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile phones purchased after January 26. Unlocking enables a phone to operate on a compatible carrier of a consumer's choosing."

White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/mobile-unlocking-petition/

http://preview.tinyurl.com/bdxzsba



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