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Direct link to petition: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-fre...

It only takes a minute to sign :)

Most political petitions have no impact. They are just email-gathering campaigns. This one is different: it's on the Whitehouse site and it's not for gathering emails, it's to give Open Access advocates some political cover as they craft their proposal.

So if you sign only one online petition this year, make it this one.

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I'd have signed, but after signing in, the button stays grey and I can't click it. Click on the help links brings me to an 'under construction' page. Clearing my cache and ctrl-reloading the page didn't help.

I had this problem in FF, but not in Chrome. Maybe some redirect issue? Who knows.

Maybe it's an issue with signing up. I started on Chrome, but moved to Safari and it worked on Safari.

Thank you for persisting! I hope others don't have the same awkward experience and give up.

> This one is different: it's on the Whitehouse site

> So if you sign only one online petition this year, make it this one.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions

Obviously different petitions will have different worthiness-levels, both in terms of their cause and their likelihood to have any effect, but I don't think your arguments really back up the "if you only sign one.." statement.

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