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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: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:30PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:30PM (#612322) Journal

    The petition site has one purpose, and only one: It gives people a place to vent.

    Seriously naive.

    The single purpose is to gather names of troublemaker citizens to be rounded up at some unspecified future date, and to be monitored in the immediate present. The government is taking names.

    Trump is making a list and checking it twice.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain_nifty on Wednesday December 20 2017, @07:56PM

    by captain_nifty (4252) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @07:56PM (#612490)

    This was my thought as well.
    When it first opened, and it wasn't yet a total farce, I went on to vote and was immediately met with the need to identify myself. This seemed like a really bad idea to me and I went no further. Given the tepid level of responses, (i.e. here's a response from the head of the agency currently screwing you, saying everything is legal and A okay), I've never felt the need to voice my opinion in this useless manner again.

    The holocaust should have taught us the inherent problems of really effective data collection, sadly we didn't learn that lesson.