I found this the oddest thing on Inauguration Day. Aside from authoritarian overreach, is it possible it went down because the military took control that day?
I’d assume if we were in a devolution situation, you couldn’t petition anyone in the federal government.
Wikipedia doesn’t offer much insight:
“On January 20, 2021, the day the Inauguration of Joe Biden took place, the website's address started redirecting to the White House's website home address. The removal was first reported on by the anti-imperialist website antiwar.com and later picked up by the Ron Paul Institute. A reporter for Newsweek, Mary Ellen Cagnassola received no comment from the White House when seeking comment for a Newsweek fact-checking article on the Ron Paul Institute article's claims on the removal.”
What gives?
I think it was anfifa's website as well was redirecting to wh.gov
There’s a lot of funky things with it the more I dig.
Like how Obama’s administration made comments about Trump’s administration “not understanding how the cache works” because signatures supposedly weren’t showing up at the beginning of his term.
No big loss. It never accomplished much during the Obama administration and I can't remember Trump ever acknowledging it either.
My bigger question is if it’s a sign the military did take over that day...
Specifically because the platform was created because of the following: “The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Users who wished to create a petition are required to register a free whitehouse.gov account. To sign a petition, users only need to provide their name and their email address, and they will receive an email with a link that they must click to confirm their signature. It is not necessary to have a whitehouse.gov account to sign a petition.”
Are you not allowed those grievances under the law of war?
The cache issues after Trump took office/signatures “not showing up” also seems important. Could the massive amounts of signatures for the Sandy Hook gun control, cell phone unlocking, and other petitions have been bots like Twitter? Were they databasing those who signed the Antifa terrorism designation petition?