New internet error code 451 could be created to indicate censorship, as a tribute to Ray Bradbury

A new status code to reflect internet censorship could be named after Ray Bradbury’s most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury‘s fiction looks set to enter the structure of the internet, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451.

Tim Bray, a fan of 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 [...]

UK in a drive to slash spending on libraries closes the one Mark Twain opened in London in 1900, using police and security to remove all books and furniture overnight to avoid daily protestors:

via Guardian.co.uk:

Campaigners fighting the closure of a London library opened by Mark Twain in 1900 have accused the Brent council leader of betrayal after the library was stripped of books and other property in the middle of the night.

Workers assisted by police officers entered Kensal Rise library between 2am and 3am on Tuesday, removing furniture, murals painted in the 1930s for the library and plaques commemorating the library’s opening by [...]