Submitted on Friday 16th August 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 4th September 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Deem encouraging damage to the economy and profiting from it as felony treason.
"Bear raiding", or "shorting and distorting", a private company by manipulating its decisions or spreading adverse rumors while shorting it is already illegal. We call for this same protection to be extended to the nation as a whole via an extension to the laws on felony treason.
Since this behaviour is already illegal in the stock market, this change to the law should not unduly harm the free market.
With economic and cyber conflicts of increasing relevance, it is appropriate that acts of economic and cyber treason should be added to the acts of military treason currently within the law.
Petitioner is aware that there is no death penalty for felony treason and nothing in this petition asks for its introduction or application.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We're not sure exactly what you mean by acts of economic and cyber treason or how you'd like the law to be changed.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
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