Why aren ' t we wearing throwback uni ' s ? <| sep |> That ' s my loadout . <| sep |> There was a time when drinking age differed by states in the US . Then in stepped the federal government that requested the states to raise the age to 21 . Not sure why that age was decided on . Odd truly . How they got all states to agree was by withholding federal funding for interstates roadshighways till they did so . <| sep |> I wrote my MA dissertation on the IP BillAct . I studied things such as the petitions process linked by utopgooners and also Twitter discourse from the general public . Basically , the UK didn ' t give a fuck as it passed Parliament because . Brexit . Very little political participation . Very little care from the electorate . Will probably continue to be the same as long as there is a more obvious enemy out there . I was awarded a distinction if that helps p . s . humblebrag . I ' d say continue to dissent as long as such matters bother you . Subversive measures are invisible . Once they start making arrests bringing cases to court etc . this is when the IP Act will truly go under the microscope . Realistically as long as the IP Act is used semijudicially and prevents this or that we won ' t see any change . For change we ' ll need multiple see 100 ' s or 1000 ' s of cases where it is used extrajudicially or it will simply be written off as operator error LOVEINT and so on . The concept of the petition system is great but my research would suggest they are more useful to big ticket items e . g . immigration economy that people have an instant reaction to . Ask your Granny what she thinks about immigration and she ' ll have a reaction . ask her about the suppressive internet surveillance and she ' ll likely ask who the internet is and what heshe has done with you .