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"451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites

Posted by timothy on from the captain-beatty-approves dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "To fend off the chilling effects of heavy-handed internet restriction, the UK consumer rights organization Open Rights Group wants to create a new version of the '404 Page Not Found' error message, called '451 unavailable,' to specify that a webpage wasn't simply not there, it was ordered to be blocked for legal reasons."

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  1. Re:Reference to... by stderr_dk · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who missed the reference and didn't click the links, this is a reference to Fahrenheit 451.

    Anyone who didn't get the references need to: Go back to highschool chemistry, and read more books.

    We can't!

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  2. Re:Reference to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The judge specifically told me I'm not allowed to go to any more high schools.

  3. Re:Already exists? by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should use code 418 then. It's been around forever, and it's probably quite appropriate!

  4. Re:I get the reference but... by gman003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better idea: open up a 600 "Non-Technical Fault" range. You could even go into more detail: a 600 error could be a generic block, while a 620 might mean "Copyright Infringement", a 630 "Terrorism" or even a 666 "Satanism and/or Heavy Metal".

  5. Re:This may work........ by biek · · Score: 4, Funny

    404a - Page does not exist. This error never happened.

  6. Re:Already exists? by smash · · Score: 5, Funny

    So its breaking news on slashdot.

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