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Tuna-Fish
on March 18, 2016
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The 451 status code is now supported
Just to clarify: Archive.is decided to block all of Finland not because of some Finnish legal requirement, but because the guy running it had a bad experience in Finnish customs and wanted to have revenge of some sort. Not really censorship.
kdamken
on March 18, 2016
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What a hilarious misuse of power. I hope my country doesn't piss off wikipedia or something.
SilasX
on March 18, 2016
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And misuse of status code too. Rejecting a country because you had a bad experience with them should just be the general 403 Forbidden.
CalRobert
on March 18, 2016
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Would've been better to use 418 if he was just being petty.
jessaustin
on March 18, 2016
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The motivation for censorship doesn't really change the result. 451 is at least more honest than 403 would have been.
thrillgore
on March 18, 2016
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That doesn't sound like a good use of HTTP 451.
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