An online petition to the White House regarding the locking of mobile phones has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, the milestone at which the U.S. government is required to issue an official response. The petition is intended to make unlocking phones legal again. The signature-gathering campaign has largely generated followers via social networks including Twitter and Reddit.

Last Tuesday, Twitter’s most popular anonymous account, YouAnonNews (which has more than 900,000 followers) reported that about 20,000 more signatures were needed in the next five days, and “on Wednesday, a second push came from Reddit, at a point where there were just under 10,000 signatures needed,” reports The Next Web. The petition then raised more than 20,000 signatures in just two days.

“Back in late January, a new U.S. federal policy stating certain mobile phones could not be unlocked legally went into effect. Citizens doing so would be in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),” explains the article. “The U.S. Copyright Office says only owners of the software, which in almost all cases means the companies that make mobile operating systems like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, can unlock handsets.”

However, many consumers do not agree, believing that once they purchase a device, they should have the freedom to do with it what they choose (such as unlocking it to switch carriers). According to the petition, the current rule “reduces consumer choice, and decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full.”

The individual credited with starting the petition, Sina Khanifar, is continuing the fight to modify the DMCA through FixTheDMCA.org. At the time of this post, the petition to the White House had gathered 110,901 signatures.