On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > CC:ing Tim to make sure he sees this. > I’m on your WG, but there haven’t been many recent opportunities to chip in my usual input along the lines of “MOAR ENCRYPTION”. > > However, the use case that seems more interesting is a Web site hosting > content for others -- e.g., Google, Twitter, Facebook, Github -- who is > forced to censor content. Giving them a > > status code that communicates "I've been legally required not to send this > content" would allow this content to be found automatically, thereby making > censorship more apparent and > > accountable. > Yep, and the other one that really turns my crank is statistics-gathering bots. If this becomes a bit more widely used, aggregating information about the contexts where it’s more (or less) used would be very interesting. At the moment I suspect nobody has decent-quality stats about the incidence of legal blockages - I mean civilized-process-of-law legal blockages, not the censors working for oppressive governments, who won’t be using 451 anyhow.
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