Alan Jones boycott tops Change.org list of ten most signed petitions
Alan Jones
Online petition group Change.org has released a list of its ten most popular petitions this year – with a campaign to pressure advertisers to boycott the radio show of shock jock Alan Jones topping the lot.
Jones’ station 2GB came under fire after the controversial host said in a speech that the PM’s father had “died of shame”. The Macquarie Radio Network station pulled ads after public pressure from groups including Change.org.
Media-related petitions made up three of the top ten. Campaigns to stop Cleo Magazine airbrushing young girls and a Facebook page of racist Aboriginal memes also featured.
Why all the fuss just because Alan Jones said Juliar’s father “died of shame”??? BIG DEAL!!! How pathetic, can’t take a comment made about our precious prime minister who is an absolute BITCH in Parliament, and a little insult and you have to bully the advertisers into stopping their support of Alan Jones. HOW RIDICULOUS, HOW BLOODY RIDICULOUS!!! WHAT A WASTE AND ABUSE OF DEMOCRACY IF PETITIONS ARE SIGNED OVER THAT I mean if someone insulted John Howard’s father, can you imagine this amount of fuss??? I bet not!!!
doesn’t say much for change.org – no significant figures for any petition v even online population
Shame, welcome to our perfectly functioning democracy. You may not wish to sign that particular petition that’s your choice. I, for one will not ridicule you for your decision. The fact that it was signed by over 100,000 people indicates that a lot of people would disagree. Do you have to be so abusive though? Well done to the organisers. Whilst the object of the petition is still on air just today he was forced to apologise for earlier outrageous comments. He is on notice.
It’s called good manners SJS, something you know nothing about judging from your post. Now go back to Liberal Party HQ and work on Tony’s excuses for Brough and Ashby.
Change.org? From that list it should be Luvvies.org.
So entirely predictable.
Nothing wrong with expressing a view or having a petition, but these luvvies tend to think their view should be the only view permitted.
Notably absent from the list is anything about freedom of speech, or freedom of expression. Or protection of privacy.
But that’s what you’d expect from the zealots of the Nanny State.
One click and they’re gone. That’s not activism, that’s pest control.
Actually, this point works for both ends of the argument. One click and you can get rid of Alan Jones, like a dead beetle. Pfffft!
Except the real activists were the listeners – who turned on in greater numbers after all the clickers were back on Facebook, the ADHD addiction of billions. Sorry, online activists. It’s wishful clicking.
And didn’t the advertising boycott of Jones work a treat? Large companies like Woolworths were bullied into dropping their ads, smaller businesses gladly took their place, Jones increased his audience and small business enjoyed an increase in sales as a result.
The good news is that this nonsense is largely confined to trendy leftists online and has had little impact. I suspect that when Tony becomes PM we will see an upsurge in this type of inconsequential and petulant foot-stamping and ratbaggery.
@ Hoin Tony will not become PM