What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco 416
itwbennett writes "Now that the ridiculous phone unlocking law is a done deal, and we all understand exactly what that means (i.e., 'fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years'), you might be left wondering what can you do about it. Well, you could start by lending your John Hancock to this petition at the White House's 'We The People' platform. It's already over halfway to the number of signatures required to get a response from the executive branch."
Write a letter (Score:5, Informative)
While the "We the People" petition is a nice symbolic measure, it's not likely to result in any real action even if it reaches the signature limit.
It'd be far better if everyone wrote letters to their congressional representatives. There are lots of guides on the internet for doing so, here's one:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/letterscongress.htm [about.com]
Re:USA! USA! (Score:5, Informative)
Look up the old "when we reach communism" jokes if you are interested
--Coder
Re:USA! USA! (Score:5, Informative)
It looks to me that every year more and more laws in USA are being passed to the benefit of corporations, and less and less to the benefit of the people. Government in USA looks completely disfunctional. And I wouldn't care that much about it- I don't live in the USA. But USA right now is the biggest world power, and it keeps pushing all this crap down everyone's throats with all their might and influence.
--Coder