On: Russia bans Reddit

[wonkaWonka]

Agreeing to serve an Error 451[1] page to Russian IP addresses, for the offending content in question only, would be a cute resolution to all this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

[xentronium → wonkaWonka]

JFYI, LiveJournal, Github and many other sites are already doing this.

Edit: Slight correction, Github responds with HTTP 200 and a "banned by your government" stub, lj.rossia.org does the same (shows the 451 code in their message though) and livejournal uses 404 code for the "banned by your government" stub. I figure it's because it's not yet in the http standard or something.

[r721 → wonkaWonka]

It looks like reddit implemented this already:

>403 Forbidden

>Request forbidden by administrative rules.

(when trying to open blacklisted url)