The “We the People” site, set up by the Obama Administration in 2011, allows people to online-petition the federal government, with a commitment by that government to respond (even with only a comment) to any petitions that get 100K virtual signatures.
The Trump Administration — which has ignored 17 petitions that topped 100K — is shutting down the site. They promise a replacement will be brought back in (at a claimed “savings” of $1.3M/year) in late January.
I’m not holding my breath, even if they were responding to petitions anyway. Which they aren’t.
White House taking down petition website, pledges to launch new one
The White House says it will take down a website that hosts petitions to the federal government, with a promise to restore it as a new site next year.
It will be back, with petitions screened to only allow those asking for cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
It will be covered with ads for donating to trump2020 campaign efforts
You'd probably have to donate in order to petition or some shit like that.
+muhammad sani Muhammad; Please see the following from Wikipedia–
launched September 22, 2011, is a section of the whitehouse.gov website for petitioning the administration's policy experts. Petitions that met a certain threshold of signatures were typically reviewed by Administration officials who prepared and issued official responses, however, this was not always the case. Criminal justice proceedings in the United States and other processes of the federal government are not subject to White House website petitions. We the People, rather, served as a public relations device for the Obama administration to provide a venue for citizens to express themselves. On August 23, 2012, the White House Director of Digital Strategy Macon Phillips released the source code for the platform. The source code is available on GitHub, and lists both public domain status as a work of the U.S. federal government and licensing under the GPL v2. As of December 19th, 2017 The Trump administration has announced its intention to shut down the website and replace it with a "new platform would save taxpayers more than $1m a year."
+Thomas Beatty It will come back in 2018, with special protections for ballot stuffing by Russian bots like those who ballot stuffed the Net Neutrality public comment process, would be my jaundiced prediction.
Please don't bother to expect any transparency from this administration. Don't bother to expect open sourced systems because they discourage corruption.