It seems they’ve reached their goal of half a million signatures! w00t! That’s pretty damn awesome! The real question is, what now? Will the Senate listen? I hope so, and not just for the pipeline, as big of a deal as it is, but bc it could show that democracy isn’t dead in the USA, that like the sopa/pipa fight, citizens can use the internet to spread awareness and share outrage, and use that to help direct actual policy. On the other hand, I could easily see certain corrupt individuals fighting this petition and similar ones for precisely those same reasons. So, it’s a bit of a toss-up.
Let’s see what happens.