Are you implying that if cloudflare kicked a nazi off their services, that would murder them?
1. Terrorism is not a judgment of the target but of the action.
2. The OP classified DDoS as terrorism.
3. DDoSing Nazis is thus terrorism.
By parity of reasoning, I pointed out that murdering a Nazi is still murder, regardless of the fact that the target was a Nazi. The nature of the target is immaterial to the classification of the action taken against them.
This is begging the question.
DDoS is not terrorism. Terrorism is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
Inconveniencing a people, by taking down a website is not violence or intimidation.
Without that tenant, everything you've argued on this thread is a moot point.
Keep in mind who you're defending here. The site in question doxxes trans people so they can be harassed and sent death threats. That IS terrorism.
But even under your definition I fundamentally disagree that this instance of it doesn't fit. It is an unlawful attack on infrastructure with clearly political aims against a service used by civilians, it is clearly being used to intimidate hosts to drop them so that the DDOS doesn't create more collateral damage for their other customers as well.
It's fine to agree with terrorism, one man's terrorist is another freedom fighter and all that, but I doubt most people would agree that it isn't terrorism.
The intent of the DDoS in question is very clearly a form of intimidation. DDoS in general does cause real economic harm and not merely inconvenience.
> Keep in mind who you're defending here.
That's irrelevant. Murdering Nazis is still wrong and illegal.
> The site in question doxxes trans people so they can be harassed and sent death threats. That IS terrorism.
If it were they would have been charged. You're imputing intent and actions without sufficient evidence, because if that evidence existed we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Extra-judicial actions of this sort, no matter how plausibly justified, are not how society works. We have laws and a justice system because mob "justice" is wrong.