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

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Just thought I'd post this update.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/white-house-phone-unlocking

quote ----->

The President Barack Obama administration must enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray.

Thanks to a whitehouse.gov petition reaching 100,000 signatures Thursday, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile phones purchased after January 26.

<----- end quote

Sincerely,

Ron


Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> And the petition to kick Texas out is going nowhere as well.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> "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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