It might sound tautological, but different things are different, and should be treated as such. We want to analogize DDoS actions as sit-ins, because we know where to position sit-ins in our worldview. But they aren’t sit-ins. The internet isn’t the sidewalk—it’s more like Outer Space. Because no will hear you scream. Except, again, it isn’t like Outer Space either; the trap of the analogizing brain makes everything like something else, even when it isn’t.

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