The White House is briefly shutting down the "We The People" petition website, but promises that all existing petitions will be reinstated on the new, less costly site:
The White House has said it will be shutting down its website for petitions from midnight on Tuesday until a new one is set up in late January. The "We The People" site was set up by the Obama administration in 2011. It promised a response to all petitions drawing more than 100,000 signatures but the Trump administration has not responded to any since January.
The White House said its new platform would save taxpayers more than $1m (£746,500) a year. The total budget of the White House for 2018 is $55m and its information technology budget for the year is $4.94m.
A White House official told the Associated Press news agency that the administration would "respond to public concerns next year" and that all existing petitions would be reinstated then.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:22AM (4 children)
Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .
(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:50AM (3 children)
You know? There actually is such a thing as "sarcastic modding"
Now... explicitly mod me +Sarcastic (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:25PM
I would add: +Sarcastic, +Inciteful, +Cynical, +SadButTrue.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:45PM (1 child)
I don't know about that. But there is a blank line between troll and spam. Wonder what that does?
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @06:05PM
Nothing. I just tried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford