bhutocracy

This is true, but GetUp are actually a pretty successful pressure group. They actively get out there and advertise on tv and have many, MANY volunteers to dispatch during elections to doorknock people to get their message across. It was most likely their effort that tipped the scales in the Ex Prime Minister's seat and actually make him only the second PM ever to lose both his own electorate and government. He was going to lose government anyway but GetUp! had a concerted pressure campaign in his electorate door knocking and generally fucking things up for him. I saw one resident say they'd been visited 4 times during the campaign by them. They barely saw the PM because he was flying all over the country shoring up support. He lost his seat 48.6% 51.4%. In short. It's not just an online petition what you're really doing is giving them anti-censorship soundbites for their tv spots or whatever.. "we raised 35,000 signatures in 24 hrs" etc. If it was just someone setting up a petition on online-petition.com or whatever.. yeah.. i'd massively agree it's a total waste of time.. But it's all good.. these guys are massive pains in the ass, couldn't think of a better place to give a bit of token support. (I have already donated money to other organisations, and will be meeting people involved in the campaign against it next week.)