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HTTP 451

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Also called 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons, Unavailable for Legal Reasons

In computer networking, HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error List of HTTP status codes|status code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests a resource which cannot be served for legal reasons, such as a web page censored by an authoritarian government or an evil tech giant. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian SciFi novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed by the evil authoritarians((https://theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/22/ray-bradbury-internet-error-message-451, Call for Ray Bradbury to be honoured with internet error message)) 451 intends to provide more information than 403 Forbidden, which is often used for the same purpose.((https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/19/http-error-code-451-unavailable-for-legal-reasons, Title: HTTP error code 451: "Unavailable For Legal Reasons", Ducklin, Paul, Published: August 19, 2013, Naked Security, Publisher: Sophos))

This status code is standardized in [[RFC>7725 | RFC 7725.

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