The group claims the cyberattack tactic – which
effectively freezes targeted Web pages for a time – should be protected as a
new-age form of assembly and protest.
“Instead of a group of people standing outside a
building to occupy the area, they are having their computer occupy a website to
slow (or deny) service of that particular website for a short time,” says a
line in the posted petition on the White House site, “We the People.”
