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I think the value of the status code is that it clearly calls out where censorship is happening. If a different status code was used, then you wouldn't know tha

I think the value of the status code is that it clearly calls out where censorship is happening. If a different status code was used, then you wouldn't know that it was due to censorship.

maus42 11y ago
Interesting thing is, there wasn't any legal requests or censorship attempts by Finnish government. The maintainer of the website was angry at Finnish customs or something. (There was a slightly incoherent rantish post about that purportedly written by him floating around the internet but I'm not sure if it really was the person in question.) edit. language + explanation.
sirodoht 11y ago
Exactly. Censorship (external legal request) exists and this is a fact. The mere engineering projection of it does not strengthen it. On the contrary, through the 451 status code we can know that you cannot have access due to an "external legal request".