Change.org and websites like it were founded to help spread ideas and promote change in, most noted, politics. Excellent petitions have arose for things such as net neutrality. However recently we have begun to see a rise in people abusing this system.

In the United States, we live in a society in which ideas are allowed to freely flow in a metaphorical open market of ideas. At its core this is what defines our American democracy, but there are people who seek to destroy this ideal.

They attempt to stop the free flowing of ideas through less than honest methods. They hide under the guise of social justice or progressivism but in actuality they are calling for censorship of ideas. This is outright dangerous to our society as a whole.

I wish to simply just make a statement with this petition. I want to tell the people at large that there are still those who care about the free flowing of ideas, and those who do support these policies are a small, but vocal minority.