Error 451 is the new Ray Bradbury-inspired HTTP code for online censorship<article>
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The web is full of cryptic status codes that your browser shows when it can’t connect to a website, such as 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found. Now the Internet Engineering Steering Group is adding one more error code for your browser—but this time it will make it all too clear why you can’t see something.</p><p>
The IESG recently approved
status code 451 that tells visitors they can’t see the requested content due to “legal obstacles,” which usually means government censorship. Former Google engineer Tim Bray suggested code 451, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel
Fahrenheit 451, back in 2012.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3017553/internet/error-451-is-the-new-ray-bradbury-inspired-http-code-for-online-censorship.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Error 451 is the new Ray Bradbury-inspired HTTP code for online censorship
