White House realizes that encouraging snitching does not effectively advance its cause.

A couple of weeks ago the White House asked for citizens to forward "fishy" emails on health care reform to flag@whitehouse.gov. Apparently, the White House has now realized that many American's viewed this as a request for people to snitch on those who disagreed with the White House on health care reform that was damaging their efforts, and it has disabled this email address:

Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.

E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The email address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”

Oddly, that website's contact form now contains the following instruction:

Please refrain from submitting any individual’s personal information, including
their email address, without their permission.