I found an interesting article that talks about a petition that resulted from the free skating event in the Olympics. The article is here. During the free skating event, Yuna Kim who is a gold medalist is beaten by Adelina Sotnikova. A petition ensues after these results are given because it seemed likely that Kim would win over Sotnikova especially since Kim didn’t make as many mistakes as Sotnikova. It is even said that on the score sheet for Kim, she received a zero for one of her jumps although she did it perfectly. Needless to say, the petition occurred out of outrage at the Olympics allowing something allegedly unfair to happen.

The petition for the reconsidering of Yuna Kim to be the gold medalist instead of the silver medalist is over a million backers strong. However, it is said that the decision will not be over written or reconsidered. What I want to ask here is, how is this gathering and petitioning different than what happened in Here Comes Everybody when the woman leaves her phone in a cab? The woman who left her phone in the cab was able to get her phone back through a bunch of voices gathering together as well as with evidence but didn’t have nearly as much people backing the cause as the petition for Yuna Kim. The petition for Yuna Kim has evidence and has an immense backing but nothing is going to change, why is that?