A touch over dramatic, verging on smug given that it’s a nerd in-joke.
(If you didn’t know, this HTTP status code is a tongue in cheek reference to the dystopian sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451 where information is outlawed.)
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I don't see how it's dramatic or smug at all.
451 is an improvement on the vague 403 forbidden status code, and is specified in RFC 7725, a standards track document:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
This isn't an inside joke that someone just made up, other than someone (Timothy Bray?) choosing this particular constant out of the remaining unused 4xx series.
In other news, a friend of a friend's mom's tennis partner's cat sitter knew someone whose website was taken down by socialist European lawyers, so what harm is there from banning them from the village? It's not like we want them here anyway!