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posted by mrpg on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the sure dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:50AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:50AM (#612230) Journal

    Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .

    You know? There actually is such a thing as "sarcastic modding"

    Now... explicitly mod me +Sarcastic (grin)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:25PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:25PM (#612317) Journal

    I would add: +Sarcastic, +Inciteful, +Cynical, +SadButTrue.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:45PM (1 child)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:45PM (#612401)

    I don't know about that. But there is a blank line between troll and spam. Wonder what that does?

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @06:05PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @06:05PM (#612420) Journal

      Nothing. I just tried.

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