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[ NNSquad ] EPIC's claim of early White House TSA petition pulldown is false
EPIC's claim of early White House TSA petition pulldown is false http://j.mp/N99mSd (This message on Google+) - - - Sites all over the Net picked up a claim by EPIC that the White House had prematurely pulled down a petition regarding TSA when it was nearing its "signature" threshold. People who really should have known better started claiming an Obama "conspiracy" to block the petition from completion. This of course made no sense on its face. What would be accomplished? How would it be explained? After all, even if the threshold were met, all the White House has to do is issue a boilerplate response and that's that. Why risk subterfuge? Totally illogical! The whole White House petition gimmick was silly from the outset, and I said so publicly when it was first announced. A Web site problem seemed a much more likely cause for the petition vanishing, but in fact the creator of the petition, Jim Harper of Cato, now says it ended correctly on schedule. EPIC apparently simply assumed it had ended prematurely. See: http://j.mp/N98eOB (Twitter / Jim Harper) Anyone feeling at least a little bit like a gullible fool? Maybe some common sense, next time? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad