Post #2192128
2025-12-01 18:10 UTC
@webvision@mastodon.social @inj4n@chaos.social well I read the law instead of asking ChatGPT. The only legal way of declaring a public petition is through the dedicated online system; I doubt signatures on a random other platform "count", but as said, there's probably some freedom in Petitionsausschuss.
nothing about that is undemocratic: democracy has certain, well-defined ways of participation. a sheet of paper with names on it has no democratic legitimacy until you throw it, at agreed-upon times & places into an urn.
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@funkylab@mastodon.social 2025-12-01 18:12
@webvision@mastodon.social @inj4n@chaos.social there's a fair question to be asked about whether platforms like openpetition are aspects of democracy or just simulations or even just simulacra.