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Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by p_papageorgiou on Thursday August 15, 2013 @07:53AM (#6217239)
The whole point of this is wrong... The internet is free, content shouldn't be blocked for legal reasons
Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by lsh on Thursday August 15, 2013 @08:07AM (#6217283)
The internet is _not_ free, obviously, because content has been blocked for legal reasons in certain regions of the world.

I agree with your sentiment though - the internet _should_ be free.

Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by nextw33k on Thursday August 15, 2013 @07:59AM (#6217261)
The whole point of this is right, its highlighting the government breaking the Internet.

Content shouldn't be blocked, the Internet should be free and open. However without letting people know what's happening they will not complain.

Of course what the browser should display is:

451: The Right Honourable Claire Perry MP has deemed that you shouldn't be able to look at this site.

Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by p_papageorgiou on Thursday August 15, 2013 @09:05AM (#6217506)
I have no clue about US politics but this sounds cool!
Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by alan_cx on Thursday August 15, 2013 @10:43AM (#6218066)
In case you didn't know, MP Clair Perry is a British Member of Parliament, sadly. She is one of those people who know better, than us "plebs".

IMHO, she is ignorant(1) and irrational(1), and there for scared witless of the internet, so she seeks to control it. I don't think she knows how wrong she is, there for I don't see her as evil, as such. However, it does seem our vote whore of a Prime Minister listens to her every word, hence the attempts to block porn and make people opt in to avoid the blocks, since her position ties in to an awful lot of right wing voters, who are equally, if not more, ignorant and irrational. They are the kind of people who genuinely believed Rock and Roll was the work of the devil, and that black people are a different species.

(1)I use these words for their real meaning and not the insult, judgement, or political value. I honestly think many people literally do not understand the technical issues, and act illogically as a result. I believe this is a lot to do with the traditional media, who politicians rely on, issuing scare stories about the internet because their business were and still are threatened by it. My "evil" in this is those who spread the lies, ie, the media. I hate to admit this, but in many ways I see the likes of Clair Perry as well intentioned victims and mules of the media.

Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by gpvos on Thursday August 15, 2013 @07:59AM (#6217258)
Yet it is, because the courts have a different opinion on this, and they decide what happens. So it's better to make it clear to the end user when it happens, so at least they are not kept in the dark, or are basically lied to, about the reason why they cannot see the document.
Re:Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for leg... by r00fus on Thursday August 15, 2013 @03:55PM (#6220178)
should != is

And the distance between them is measured as response code 451