Venture Beat
The White House has raised its requirements to make it more difficult to get a response on user-generated petitions today. The White House's We The People tool allows U.S. citizens to create their own petition to the government. Previously, President...
Russia Today
Thousands of Americans have signed yet another bizarre online White House petition, this one to secure funding and resources to build the Death Star' space station from the popular sci-fi film...US District Attorney Carmen Ortiz has come under fire...
The Guardian
Recent petitions have asked the White House to allow Texas to secede, to deport Piers Morgan and to build a Death Star. Photograph: Lucasfilm/Ronald Grant Archive The White House has quadrupled the number of signatures required to receive an official...
Gawker
White House Raises We the People' Signature Threshold to 100,000, Leaving Only a Single Response-Eliciting Petition on the Site Late yesterday, the White House announced that it was raising the threshold of signatures needed to elicit a response...
The New York Observer
WhiteHouse.gov) After a slew of stupid petitions cluttered the White House's official petition platform We the People, the administration has decided to raise the bar for the amount of signatures required to elicit a White House response. Now,...