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

[Jim Kinney]

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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