Comment by NitpickLawyer
1 day ago
No, they should block with a very visible message, tailored to the british public. I know what that status message means, you know it, but the general public doesn't. They need the black page with big letters they used before with sopa/pipa/etc.
You can return a 451 error with a descriptive page, same as how sites have custom 404 pages
We need new 6xx codes. "Requests that are fine, need no redirection and have no errors but are blocked because of politics, overbearing laws or regime"
That's what 451 means.
It's "user error, you are trying to access the site from some dystopian society that prohibits it".
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For example, "An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles":
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725