There are a lot of things that makes recent attacks so disconcerting, and unlike anything else. At the top of the list: debanking. Mastercard is heavily involved in these campaigns, and runs a program designed to leverage their position in order to influence the policies and actions of any company touched by their payment processing network (which is basically everyone). This program started out as a proto-ESG-index back before the acronym had pierced the public consciousness, and it has morphed into what it now is: the nuclear option to be used on companies that don't fold to harassment campaigns. Rumor has it that this is what changed Cloudflare's mind about not policing free speech when a storm of coordinated news articles started demanding the deplatforming of KF. It was amazing, literally over night the CEO went from releasing a lengthy statement in defense of free speech - to the next day banning them and lying about the rationale (something about incitement to violence). The other thing making this such a big problem is the specific protected class behind it. You may have noticed that I haven't even hinted what these people are about, and that is because of how eagerly SV will censor any frank discussion of these activists' illegal activities. I've never even heard of one being prosecuted, despite the ample evidence. That is directly related to the Cloudflare/KF deplatforming campaign, because these people were very frustrated by their inability to DDoS the site - and they've repeated the same tactic on any DDoS mitigation service KF paid for.