Is DDOS free speach?

So I finally got around to poking at the "We The People" petitions that you can submit to the White House;  and guess what I found?

A petition to equate DDOS attacks with a protest march.  In other words, DDOS is just a form of free speech!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-distributed-denial-service-ddos-legal-form-protesting/X3drjwZY

I think the big flaw with the petition is that individuals hitting reload on a web site is very different than pointing a botnet at a web site, or sending a hundred ping-of-death packets to a web site.

For better or worse, it looks like the petition is not getting much support.