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Isn’t the DDoS a form of free speech though? At the risk of being uber pedantic, on the internet, speech is reduced to packet delivery from source to destination.

Therefore, one could make an argument that DDoS protection is in itself stifling free speech?

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In the same way that punching someone in the face is "speech", yeah.

In the U.S., at least, one is free to argue any number of ignorant things -- and often does.

What differentiates the speechy bytes from the punchy bytes?

Not even close

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