On the web, the new error code 451 signals censorship – BFMTV.COM

Gilbert
Kallenborn

Reporter

Now when you surferez the web, you may be faced with a new error code, 451. Like its big brother, the code 403, it indicates that you do not have the right to access a web page. But it is only used when the ban is related to government censorship, as is the case for thepiratebay.se. Code 451 – which was officially approved on 18 December by the standards body IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force Group) – thus brings a little more transparency to the web.

However, this does not mean when you see the code 403 or cousin the code 404 (“not available resource”), it is not a censorship. Indeed, a government may well require the operator of the site to not broadcast the 451 code, just to hide censorship. “Obviously we can not prevent that, says Mark Nottingham, head of the office HTTP Working Group within the IETF. But if your government does, it will show its intentions to the citizen you are. It’s worth it to namely, I think. ”

The number 451 has also not been chosen at random. It refers to the science fiction novel “Fahrenheit 451,” which deals precisely with censorship. A book written by Ray Bradbury in 1953 and made into a film by François Truffaut in 1966

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Gilbert Kallenborn

Reporter

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