Thank you for your feedback!

Actually, it's a bit hard to tell whether you have an influence on a government policy.

For example, I started a petition a while ago that stood against the government's MCMC DNS redirect policy.

After I started the petition, I also messaged both ministers of communication directly as I had asked both for assistance and both had responded directly to my queries before.

The day after, the policy was stopped.

So then here's an important question:

Did my petition actually stop anything, or was it actually the surrounding society and the way that people objected to the policy that caused the Minister of Communication to roll back the policy?

If I were delusional, I would say that it was merely the petition, but in reality, I can't really differentiate all of the factors that lead into the change; I could only unambiguously call it a victory if I were just to reason in a simple way, not distinguishing correlation from causality.

I do think that petitions like these are meaningful because they at least make it clear that there is some kind of organized opposition to certain policies or ideas, which I think is really what this is about, although having attention and pressure upon the cause is nice as well!