• alucard (they/them)@feddit.orgEnglish
    45·
    4 days ago

    France showed tf up. Thank you France. Their signatures make up about 50% of the total number of signatures (>600k came from France and in total it’s approx 1.2M signatures).

    Thanks also to all the countries with at least 100%, because more than 6 countries were needed.

    Thanks for every single one that signed - no matter the statistics. Every signature counts.

    • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      Important to note; The French have a very strong culture of secularism, which turns out helps a lot with fighting against religious BS.

  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Pole here: I honestly though it was outlawed in Poland 5 years ago, but despite what Google AI lies, it wasn’t. Catholic Church intervened and the ban never was voted for.

  • lemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I’m wondering about coverage. How much was it talked about in the public? How much was it covered by media? What’s your experience from France and other countries that reached the threshold and from countries that remained far from it? People can’t sign something they never heard about.

    • troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I live in France and only heard about it from social media: first, by sheer chance, a few months ago from a minor Mastodon account, the second time three days before the deadline, from the same Mastodon account again. I don’t browse Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok at all, so I’m not sure how the coverage was there.

      A trans friend who’s normally way better informed than me about this stuff told me he heard about it less than a week before the deadline, so clearly word hadn’t spread that well, even if France already did have more signatures than most countries at the time. From what I can tell, it spread through digital “word of mouth” rather than through established medias. There was some media coverage, but reeeaally at the last time. A few politicians (mostly from the left) talked about it during the last days, too.

      Like someone else said, ECIs don’t get a lot of media coverage and most people don’t even know they exist. By the way, in France, there’s also an official petition system to submit law ideas to the parliament, and it’s also not very well known. (Another problem being that most petitions on the parliament website are ludicrous because, contrary to ECI, no vetting is done before publishing the petition (as far as I know). I take a look at it now and then, and it’s really tiring to search for the legitimate stuff in the midst of all the ridiculous crap.)

    • iglou@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I don’t believe ECIs ever get a lot of media coverage, sadly.

      Most people don’t even know they can start/participate in ECIs and have their opinion taken into account at a european level. Best we can do is share the platform and make sure as many people as possible know about it.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      A lot of this is campaigning/spreading the word. Like France is fairly progressive but not 10 times as much as Sweden. Denmark and Austria are probably just late to the party. Not sure about Portugal though. They’re Eastern European at heart.