[ubuntu-uk] Restricting the Open Internet - is this a threat to Open Source

[Avi Greenbury]

Martin Dixon wrote:

> The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the
> right to control what we all see online -- but we can stop it if we
> build the largest call for a democratic and free Internet ever. Join
> me in this campaign here:
> http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_pa_eu/?kbnbtab

What does signing up here achieve? Aren't avaaz petitions basically a
more feel-good version of a Facebook like?

-- 
Avi