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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has approved the usage of a special HTTP error code on Web pages that have been taken down at the behest of a local ...

Tim Bray, a fan of [Ray] Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is ...

When you can’t get to a page on the web, you get an error code instead. The most familiar is Error 404 — “Page Not Found” — but there’s a whole universe ...

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.

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 ...

There is currently no HTTP status code to indicate you can't access content because it's been prohibited by a government agency. Tim Bray, a Google engineer, has proposed the status code "451," in ...

Google employee and creator of XML, Tim Bray, has proposed a new error message for the web. Rather than hiding censored websites behind a generic 403 error – “the ...