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Internet petition sites, whose numbers would be entirely gameable and therefore suspect. I googled "brian whitlock"
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The case is notable because it got 130,000 people to sign a petition. And the politicians might see this and decide to pass harsher sentences, although just having that many people sign a petition over something makes it clearly a notable event.
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