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It is very ironic that HTTP code 451 was originally added so it could be used to mark censorship (i.e., forced upon the publisher by legal means), but now it is almost exclusively used by sites that want to set cookies in a way that doesn't conform to GDPR, and so inhibiting access to information (i.e., chosen because of laws inconvenient to the publisher).


> and so inhibiting access to information.

How's that not censorship?


I don't know how I could have been more clear, sorry.




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