But if you would think of the activity instead as a DDoS attack on your mental attention span would you come to a different conclusion?

I was downvoted before for suggesting that DDoS protection would constitute a limit on free speech, so clearly this community feels that DDoS protection is a "good" thing.

I think we can all agree that human attention span is a limited resource, much like network bandwidth.

If we make a simple analogy between network bandwidth and human attention span, then how is an automated bot (or army of humans) sending out mass propaganda to overload your attention any different than an automated bot transmitting junk data to overload your network bandwidth? Why would you control one but not the other?