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Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship, though. People often mistake it as a book against censorship, but in reality it's a book against television.

You can read more about it here http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenh... and listen to bradbury (quicktime required, sorry) here http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html

Edit: Also, paper burns at 451 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit.

> censorship

You're interpretation is disingenuous. Yes, the larger story is about the decay of intellect in society. However, it's a forced conversion, so that's where the censorship comes into play.

> 451 degrees Celsius

Your source is an extreme outlier.

So, when will they start burning urls?

They're hard to set alight.

they do it at the firewall...

The job now falls to the Writermen. They excerpt, rewrite & aggressively-SEO... so that no original, true, or subversive ideas ever rank in top 450 search results (unless wrapped in neutralizing snark).

It's "SearchRank-451".

the word is dystopian