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Help Me Understand: I am a government who is censoring content. I do not like the explicitly saying I am 'censoring' the internet I instruct my infrastructure
by apalmer 11y ago
Help Me Understand:
I am a government who is censoring content. I do not like the explicitly saying I am 'censoring' the internet I instruct my infrastructure not to use the status code 451. and I instruct my nation's infrastructure to reject or rewrite all responses with 451 status code to 404.
What stops me?
- uremog 11y agoNothing. This is not some kind of mandate. What the general public gets out of it is that, for sites nice enough to use it, the viewer will know why they cannot view something. The alternative is for them to not know why.
- mperham 11y agoTLS.
- thrillgore 11y agoA whistleblower.
- libria 11y agoYou are correct that censors are the least likely to use this code, but for sites that are being censored by the content controller, this is better than 404 "this content never existed". Instead it says 451 "this content did exist and probably exists somewhere else if you hurry and keep searching"
- drivingmenuts 11y agoNothing. In fact, if I were a censoring country, I'd just look at who emits a 451 and take appropriate steps toward the site owner. This is political bullshit. I really wish the standards body would stick to strictly technical issues and leave the politics to the individual members on their own time.