The Free Speech thread

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Renamed said:

So Musk fires the majority of his Twitter technical staff and twice now (Ron DeSantis presidential campaign launch (earlier year and Trump interview last night) he's had massive technical failures. Ah, the karma. Failures for which he is incorrectly blaming on a DDoS attack.

It's been a most enjoyable month in politics.

He practically DDoS'd himself with the interview announcement.

Of course everyone wants to see what they have to say, and of course Twitter's infrastructure ain't up to that task, especially not after all the cuts Musk made.

And that would actually not be so bad.  If a company announces a sale that overwhelms their digital storefront or payment processor, they don't call that a DDoS.  In fact, you often brag about that.  "Our customers are so excited that they overwhelmed our systems."  

If people jam packed a physical retailer, that's fantastic news from that businesses point of view.  Even if it blocks or deters further actual sales.  A physical DDoS would be like an attacker filling the store with crash test dummies stacked to the ceiling.  All fake and no real customers can access it.

And even if it were a DDoS attack, those can be mitigated with a combination of proper edge layer packet filtering, load balancing, traffic routing, rate limiting, or use an upstream layer for each provider and use null routes when necessary.