The closest equivalent to a voluntary, publicized DDoS is a sit-in. Is it? Participating in a sit-in is about the same thing as signing a confession and beggin

The closest equivalent to a voluntary, publicized DDoS is a sit-in. Is it? Participating in a sit-in is about the same thing as signing a confession and begging the police to haul you to the judge. A DDoS is a shadow crime with elements of failure to report a crime (hiding behind a distant IP address) and betrayal (ISP ToS), with elements of malicious premeditation (geographic distribution, covert command and control network). ... the participants and organizers are going to be dealt with an order of magnitude more harshly than if they'd done the same thing minus a computer. If you could secretly conduct a sit-in of, say, all Bank of America offices using a spoon, the FBI would most certainly drop the hammer on you. And the terms of your parole, if you ever got out, would most certainly ban you from using utensils.