An online petition (or Internet petition , or e-petition ) is a form of petition which is signed online, usually through a form on a website . Visitors to the online petition sign the petition by adding their details such as name and email address. Typically, after there are enough signatories, the resulting letter may be delivered to the subject of the petition, usually via e-mail . The online petition may also deliver an email to the target of the petition each time the petition is signed.
31-558: Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit ) is an online service that provides its subscribers with access to its font library, under a single licensing agreement. The fonts may be used directly on websites, or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers. Adobe Fonts was launched as Typekit in November 2009 by Small Batch, Inc., a company run by creators of the Google Analytics service. In October 2011,
62-580: A software as a service model, Adobe announced more frequent feature updates to its products and the eschewing of their traditional release cycles . Customers must pay a monthly subscription fee. Consequently, if subscribers cancel or stop paying, they will lose access to the software as well as the ability to open work saved in proprietary file formats . Although investors applauded the move, many customers reacted negatively. This shift has been met with mixed reviews by both corporations and independent designers, with many people expressing their displeasure on
93-410: A day after it officially launched. Adobe claimed that the subscription payment plan would make its software more accessible to users who previously pirated it. On May 14, 2019, some Creative Cloud users received emails from Adobe stating that licenses to previous versions of Creative Cloud applications had been terminated and that users could face civil action from third parties if they did not update
124-530: A fake one), signatures alone rarely result in a change in the situation being protested. While this is an unfortunate con, there are many pros as well. In February 2007 an online petition against road pricing and car tracking on the UK Prime Minister 's own website attracted over 1.8 million e-signatures from a population of 60 million people. The site was official but experimental at the time. Shocked government ministers were unable to backtrack on
155-401: A method of activism by their critics. Since then, Snopes.com has removed the text about the inefficacy of Internet petitions. In a 2017 study done called "Change is an emotional state of mind: Behavioral responses to online petitions" by Abby Koenig and Bryan McLaughlin, the authors show the behavioral aspects that go into online petitions. This article goes over the unfortunate negativity that
186-683: A parliamentary committee considered holding a parliamentary debate for petitions attracting more than 100,000 signatures. In 2015, the process was formalized within Parliament and a permanent Petitions Committee was established. In the UK, the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 requires all principal authorities to provide a facility for people to submit petitions electronically. Some parliaments, government agencies and officials, such as The Scottish Parliament with
217-543: A popular resort of web-based activism and a target of criticism from those who feel that such petitions are often disregarded by their targets because of the anonymity of petition signers; Snopes.com , for example, sides against the usage of Internet petitions as a method of activism. On the other hand, the creators of petition hosts, such as Randy Paynter of Care2 and thePetitionSite.com, have defended web-based petitions as being more feasible, credible and effective than e-mail petitions, claiming they are not fairly judged as
248-510: A set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services . In Creative Cloud, a monthly or annual subscription service is delivered over the Internet. Software from Creative Cloud is downloaded from the Internet, installed directly on a local computer and used as long as the subscription remains valid. Online updates and multiple languages are included in the CC subscription. Creative Cloud
279-451: Is its "highest customer satisfaction product in the creative space" and that even prior to Adobe's move to a pure subscription model, "more than 80 percent of customers who bought products from Adobe's Web site picked CC over CS." Although Creative Cloud was expected to curtail the piracy of Photoshop , which is one of the most pirated pieces of software, Creative Cloud was hacked and its applications made available via unauthorized means
310-686: Is one of the permanent committees of the European Parliament to offer a petition process including a web portal to create and admit petitions. The right to petition is one of the fundamental rights of the European citizens and residents. The US government created We The People in 2011 as a platform for creating and signing petitions on the White House web server. The White House originally required petitions to gather 5,000 signatures within 30 days, after which time policy officials in
341-609: Is the instant availability of upgrades, saving to the cloud, and easier sharing. In June 2014, the company announced 14 new versions of the Creative Cloud essential desktop tools, four new mobile apps, and the availability of creative hardware for enterprise, education and photography customers. The video disc authoring program Adobe Encore and the web-focused bitmap editor Adobe Fireworks were both discontinued by Adobe in 2013, but were still available as downloads via Creative Cloud until May 2019. Adobe offers four tiers of
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#1732786928161372-549: The e-Petitioner system (from 1999), the Queensland Parliament in Australia, German Bundestag (from 2005), Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine (from 2016) and Bristol City Council in the U.K have adopted electronic petitioning systems as a way to display a commitment to their constituents and provide greater accessibility into government operations. The European Parliament Committee on Petitions (PETI)
403-518: The Creative Cloud subscription service for individuals (there are other types for Business and Schools): The following contains the services found on Creative Cloud. The change from perpetual licenses to a subscription model was met with significant criticism. Although Adobe's cloud-based model caused disagreement and uncertainty, and incited annoyance and conflict, a survey by CNET and Jefferies revealed that despite complaints most of its 1.4 million subscribers plan to renew. Shifting to
434-660: The European Union following the Brexit referendum. The international record for most successful online petition is currently held by the Change.org petition relating to the murder of George Floyd . As of July 2020, it has over 19.3 million signatures and counting. With the rise of the World Wide Web as a platform for commerce, activism and discussion, an opportunity to garner attention for various social causes
465-470: The administration would review the petition and issue an official response. Within two weeks of its launch, the threshold was raised to 25,000 signatures. Further changes in 2013 raised the threshold to 100,000 signatures. Other groups are attempting to establish electronic petitioning as a way to streamline and make existing citizens' initiative processes more accessible. As is the case with public perceptions of slacktivism , Internet petitions are both
496-545: The company announced that it would not sell perpetual licenses to its software alongside the subscriptions: "We understand this is a big change, but we are so focused on the vision we shared for Creative Cloud, and we plan to focus all our new innovation on the Creative Cloud". In May 2014 the service was interrupted for over a day due to a login outage leaving graphics professionals locked out of Creative Cloud. Adobe apologized for this global Creative Cloud failure. When initially asked whether customers would be compensated,
527-549: The company's Customer Service responded: "We cannot offer compensation for the outage. I'm so sorry again for the frustration." Adobe later announced that it would review compensation on "a case by case basis". The outage was heavily criticized, as was Adobe's software as a service model in general. Online articles began offering examples of replacements of Adobe products, with competing products directly offering alternatives, and launching promotions for dissatisfied Adobe customers. Adobe, however, claimed that Creative Cloud
558-530: The functionality of the cloud storage and were "far from convinced by Adobe's subscription model". Some users were concerned that they would be forced to upgrade their computer hardware when it is no longer supported by the current version of the Creative Cloud software. Some of their customers experienced a loss of trust in Adobe as a company and an attendant rise in anxiety. Despite significant customer criticism over Adobe's move to subscription-only pricing,
589-527: The implementation mechanism of widely supported initiatives. Thus, platform ManaBalss.lv in Latvia has the authority to hand over to a national parliament any legally correct initiative which has been signed by more than 10,000 authenticated supporters. Approximately half of these initiatives have been either supported by parliament or are in the process of review. The UK Parliament petitions website has operated in various guises since 2006. Beginning in 2011,
620-430: The integration of Internet petitions as a form of social media and user-generated content . Such networks may have proven to be more fertile ground for the creation of, signing of and response to online petitions, as such networks generally lack the heightened level of anonymity associated with the earlier dedicated petition hosts. In some cases petition sites have managed to reach agreement with state institutions about
651-642: The previous e-mail petitions and informal web forum-based petitions. However, petition hosts were criticized for their lax requirements from users who created or signed such petitions: petitions were often only signed with false or anonymous nomenclatures, and often resulted in disorganized side commentary between signers of the same petition. The rise of online social networking in the later 2000s, however, resulted in both an increase of Internet petition integration into social networks and an increase of visibility for such petitions; Facebook , Change.org , Care2 , SumOfUs , GoPetition and other sites serve as examples of
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#1732786928161682-408: The record for greatest number of verified signatures on an official government petition was broken in the UK. The petition, remaining live until August 2019, calls to ‘ Revoke Article 50 and remain in the E.U. ', and had over 6 million signatures by 31 March 2019. It coincided with the large national People's Vote March on the same day, also protesting against the U.K. government's decision to leave
713-428: The reversal of a United Airlines Dog Policy. Some legitimate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shun online petitions. Reasons include the paucity of examples of this form of petition achieving its objective. Critics frequently cite it as an example of slacktivism . Slacktivism is often seen with these online petitions. Due to the ease of signing the petitions, (users can write in their own name or manufacture
744-448: The service was acquired by Adobe . On 15 October 2018, Typekit changed its name to Adobe Fonts. This typography -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design , video editing , web development , photography , along with
775-418: The site's existence in the face of national news coverage of the phenomenon. The incident has demonstrated both the potential and pitfalls of online e-Government petitions. A similar form of petition is the e-mail petition. This petition may be a simple chain letter , requesting that its users forward them to a large number of people in order to meet a goal or to attain a falsely promised reward. Other times
806-684: The software on their personal computers. A representative from Adobe confirmed the letter's authenticity. The situation prompted renewed criticism of Adobe's subscription-only business model. Adobe users who sign NDAs could be in trouble after Adobe updated its terms of service to force users to share their content with Adobe, a clause that will compromise any NDA. Internet petitions There are now several major web initiatives featuring online petitions, for example Change.org , iPetitions.com, Avaaz.org , and 38 Degrees . These are growing in popularity and ability to achieve political impact. In 2012, several petitions on Change.org were attributed to
837-403: The usage will contain a form to be printed and filled out, or a link to an offsite online petition which the recipient can sign. Usually, the e-mail petition focuses on a specific cause that is meant to cause outrage or ire, centering on a timely political or cultural topic. E-mail petitions were among the earliest attempts to garner attention to a cause from an online audience. On 23 March 2019,
868-427: The web and through multiple Internet petitions . Among these was a Change.org petition which reached over 30,000 signatures within a few weeks of the announcement. Creative Cloud has been criticized for broken file syncing, one of its core features. In May 2013 Adobe announced that it was suspending the file-sync desktop preview "for the next couple of weeks". Reviewers of Creative Cloud were disappointed with
899-520: Was initially hosted on Amazon Web Services , but a new agreement with Microsoft has the software, beginning with the 2017 version, hosted on Microsoft Azure . Previously, Adobe offered individual products as well as software suites containing several products (such as Adobe Creative Suite or Adobe eLearning Suite ) with a perpetual software license. Adobe first announced the Creative Cloud in October 2011. Another version of Adobe Creative Suite
930-496: Was perceived by various players, resulting in a more formalized structure for online petitions; one of the first web-based petition hosts, PetitionOnline , was founded in 1999, with others such as GoPetition (founded in 2000), thePetitionSite.com, iPetitions, and others being established in the years since. Petition hosts served as accessible external locations for the creation of a wide variety of petitions for free by users, providing easier interfaces for such petitions in comparison to
961-497: Was released the following year. On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that they would not release new versions of the Creative Suite and that future versions of its software would be available only through the Creative Cloud. The first new versions made only for the Creative Cloud were released on June 17, 2013. The Adobe Creative Cloud retains many of the features of Adobe Creative Suite and introduces new features; foremost