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Source: 30dB.com – We%20the%20People-and-Petitions
A site run by the White House, We the People allowed ordinary Americans to create and sign petitions, to which Obama Administration officials would respond if there were enough signatures. More than 300 petitions met the required number of signatures and most of them got some sort of response, but that experiment hasn’t continued under President Donald Trump. In fact, no petitions have elicited a reaction since Trump’s Inauguration except for one asking the President to release his tax returns, which had more than 200,000 digital signatures – twice the required number — on the same day last January when that prospect was flatly dismissed by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Now, it seems as though We the People is being dismantled altogether. The website’s landing page says that it will be down for maintenance until January, but with the Trump Administration’s track record of actually responding to digital petitions in mind, Social fears it may be gone for good. The shutdown was greeted with 99 percent negative sentiments across social media. –Hugo Guzman
Republished from 30dB
