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I am surprised the petition has yet to reach 100k signatures.

Is it optimistic to think that most of the tech community at least should recognize the significance of this? Even if you doubt its effect on real policy.

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I'm not. Who has time to fully comprehend (and act upon) this? Especially when we're already working >50h a week to maintain household status quo. It's hard to focus on the state of society's infrastructure when I'm spending every waking moment working to maintain my own. Yes, I know what is at stake, but one avenue is a long burn and the other is a short fuse. I'll tackle the more pressing issue first.

Disclosure: I work in the netsec industry and only signed this because HN brought it to my attention in the rare spare moments between my daily tasks. To use an analogy, I feel like I can't worry about putting out the forest fire if my house is already on fire in the midst of it. At the same time, I'm throwing money at someone that says they'll help me free up more time to do the forest fire fighting. We'll see if I've made a grave mistake in how I prioritize things.

This is my reaction whenever I hear someone suggest that "we should be rioting in the streets." I have daily personal struggles and work that I'm trying to pin down every day with all my energy. And my remaining time/energy go into finding a mate if I even have any at all.

So it turns out the real way to prevent riots is to make sure everyone is running in the rat race. Or in other words, jobs that only meet ~99% of their needs.

Direct link to petition: https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff

I think most people are just too lazy/paranoid to sign petitions. Tech or not.

Petitions don't do anything. I donate to the EFF and Demand Progress instead.

True, I donate to the EFF though not Demand Progress(yet)

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