Governments will not always be able to disguise which content they restrict across the Web thanks to a new error code which will warn users of content restricted ...

It's not every day that a new HTTP error code is introduced -- there are, after all, a limit to the number that could possibly be needed -- but it may not be long ...

Increasingly, Internet providers are being instructed by courts to block access to websites. This measure is often applied against copyright infringing sites, but not always with a proper explanation.

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), which is responsible for the Internet standards process, has pretty much approved HTTP 451 as the standard error code ...

If you don’t think book burning is a fair analogy for blocked websites, may I remind you that the British Library’s wi-fi filter recently blocked users from accessing Hamlet due to its “violent” ...

If a user attempts to visit The Pirate Bay via BT in the UK he gets a simple three-word message: "Error - site blocked." This, says the UK's Open Rights Group (ORG ...

Any Web user is familiar with the 404 Page Not Found error message that appears on broken links. And some of us have happened upon the more mysterious ‘403 ...

CDN company Cloudflare is displaying an extremely rare 'Error 451' to German visitors who attempt to access a music piracy site. The message currently affecting DDL ...

The 451 HTTP status code is now official in the eyes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the independent organization responsible for many of the internet’s operating standards. Now, when ...