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

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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Re:woosh

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe you don't get it. It's not a solution, it's a protest.

Ah, so it's a pointless token action by people either too lazy and content to get off their asses and do some real protesting or too simple-minded to realize it's a pointless token action, then. Gotcha, thanks for clearing it up!