White House begins filtering Silly- Petitions need 100,000 signatures

[cbelt3]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-5756420...d-to-100k/

"Beginning today, petitions filed on WhiteHouse.org's We the People platform will need to log 100,000 signatures in 30 days to receive an official response from the Obama Administration, quadrupling the previous minimum of 25,000.

The higher threshold will "ensure we're able to continue to give the most popular ideas the time they deserve," Macon Phillips, the White House's director of digital strategy, wrote in a blog post today. "This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist."

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Good. That will avoid the media elevation of smaller groups of stupid people.

[SteveG]

Where do I sign a petition opposing this?

[cbelt3]

Steve G. wrote:
Where do I sign a petition opposing this?

Ed: Yes, that petition exists:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...s/cNjdpc3R

[SteveG]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
Where do I sign a petition opposing this?

Ed: Yes, that petition exists:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...s/cNjdpc3R
[edit]I should have known. It's getting tougher to do [bad] jokes nowadays.