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The original petition failed due to two issues:

  • UK government misinterpreted what the petition is about and didn't really answered to what was being asked
  • early general elections canceled all ongoing petitions at the time

This attempt has a new, reworded petition to, hopefully, make it simple and clear enough to avoid any additional problems.

There are two thresholds for UK petitions:

  • 10 000 signatures: official government response
  • 100 000 signatures: petition will be considered for debate in Parliament

Here is a video from Ross Scott (the main organizer of the Stop Killing Games initiative) about this update.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What a joke. Who would ever choose having their shit taken away after a year?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca -1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Who would buy cigarettes? Who would buy a Cybertruck? Who would buy meat? Just because you wouldn't choose it doesn't mean it's a choice that must be banned.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

As it stands now, it's difficult for the consumer to make the informed choice that you can make with any of those. And the comparison is that you'd prefer cigarettes that didn't cause cancer, because they absolutely have the ability to make cigarettes that don't cause cancer in this metaphor, but they choose not to because they believe they stand to make more money the way things are.