{"id":675421,"date":"2010-02-25T03:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0329348288.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-25T03:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:54:23","slug":"mandelson-gets-to-choose-how-long-your-temporary-suspension-would-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675421","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson Gets To Choose How Long Your &#8216;Temporary&#8217; Suspension Would Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how the UK was just playing a word game by <i>claiming<\/i> that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100222\/1643558258.shtml\">wouldn&#8217;t disconnect<\/a> users from the internet via Peter Mandelson&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill?  That was quickly debunked, as people realized that the gov&#8217;t was simply changing how it described the disconnection, calling it a &#8220;temporary account suspension&#8221; instead.  Of course, that&#8217;s still a disconnect.  Another unresolved question, however, was how long is temporary?  Turns out the answer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/feb\/23\/mandelson-decide-internet-suspension\" >however long Peter Mandelson thinks is appropriate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0329348288.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100224\/0329348288.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100224\/0329348288&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=41f986e71f77379d0e9c9c864efb4719&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=41f986e71f77379d0e9c9c864efb4719&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=wN6UPyISq0M:jDqfgD95NQk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=wN6UPyISq0M:jDqfgD95NQk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=wN6UPyISq0M:jDqfgD95NQk:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/wN6UPyISq0M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how the UK was just playing a word game by claiming that it wouldn&#8217;t disconnect users from the internet via Peter Mandelson&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill? That was quickly debunked, as people realized that the gov&#8217;t was simply changing how it described the disconnection, calling it a &#8220;temporary account suspension&#8221; instead. Of course, that&#8217;s still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PHT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}