But I'm sure the White House had a fun time harvesting all those email addresses to spam throughout the coming fourteen months of election season!
Taking what people think lightly is a skill practiced by all politicians. They are very good at it.
Because harvesting email addresses is pretty much the ultimate purpose of all online petitions.
Their privacy policy doesn't seem to allow email addresses to be used for that purpose
Which part excludes it?
Use of government resources for an election campaing is another issue, one more than just privacy activists care about.
In a world where the President can take Air Force One to go to a campaign fundraiser, I don't think that this is taken all that seriously any more. There are certain rules regarding what's "politics" and what's "government", but if the White House has your email address you're certainly gonna be getting a lot of emails going "Gosh, what a good job I'm doing as President. What a pity those darn Republicans are to blame for everything that's going wrong" et cetera.
Says who? I've been registered on more than one petition websites for years using an email just for them ([name-of-site]@mydomain.com) and I haven't ever got a spam email.
In a world where the President can take Air Force One to go to a campaign fundraiser, I don't think that this is taken all that seriously any more. There are certain rules regarding what's "politics" and what's "government", but if the White House has your email address you're certainly gonna be getting a lot of emails going "Gosh, what a good job I'm doing as President. What a pity those darn Republicans are to blame for everything that's going wrong" et cetera.
Do you have an evidence of this ever happening, or are you just defaming?
It struck me as the first time I'd ever heard of an online petition achieving its goal.
Here's hoping this becomes second time.
Oh! I know the answer to that one!
The only thing less useful? An online political statement that doesn't actually accomplish anything!
And my opinion has nothing to do with the White House. In fact, it stems from my only time petitioning my congressional representative. I begged him for no form letters and no additions to any email lists -- and a I got a form letter and put on an email list.
Now I get emails every month or two telling me what an awesome guy he is.