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White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January

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

takyon writes:

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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Original Submission

• Have you seen some of the petitions? Have you seen some of the petitions? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @07:44PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @07:44PM (#612480)

  Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016
  Deport everyone that signed a petition to withdraw their state from the USA
  Nationalize the Twinkie industry
  Deport Justin Bieber and Revoke His Green Card
  Establish new legal system of motorcycle riding "judges" who serve as police, judge, jury, and executioner all in one
  Shut down White House petitions, since they never get a sincere response, few read them & they are ultimately worthless
  And there's plenty trying to make thugs look like boy scouts

• Re:Have you seen some of the petitions? Re:Have you seen some of the petitions? (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:46PM (1 child)

  by Bot (3902) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:46PM (#612561) Journal

  > And there's plenty trying to make thugs look like boy scouts

  This is genius.
  My AI says this would cut the number of criminals down to 2% which BTW is the percentage of thugs who are actual boy scouts and well beyond salvation anyway.

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  • Re:Have you seen some of the petitions? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @02:27AM (#612684)

    Deport Justin Bieber and Revoke His Green Card... I'd sign that petition AND buy the one-way airline ticket to fairyland.

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