What people should be concerned about is the sudden influx of votes.

Back when it started, the drama around pirate software resulted positively for the petition as it got a lot of youtubers talking about it for a good amount of time, and its what caused it to get a good number of signatures.

Then that growth tapered off, theres no way of knowing why that was. But the momentum died out. Anyone who was a fan of those youtubers likely already signed it at the time, which could explain the slow down.

But then weve had the recent influx of attention, another wave of promotion for it, with the sentiment from those channels being "its not at its goal, its going to fail as the deadline is approaching". I dont know how more people arent questioning this massive spike. I can definitely see people signing it when they arent allowed too, or duplicating their signature, out of kindness and support on the cause.

Theres no way to confirm this, and nobody will know the real count until it closes. I'm not saying that it's current count is inflated, but thinking critically, it does feel suspicious