Kinetic strikes don’t normalize the internet

Social‑media traffic shifts after attacks on hosting infrastructure are easy to misread: outages and benign automated traffic can produce apparent 'bot' drops, while malicious networks often migrate rather than disappear. Simple before‑and‑after snapshots (influencer anecdotes, short time windows) create misleading causal stories about cleaning up disinformation. — This matters because policymakers and publics may be tempted to endorse or celebrate kinetic remedies for online harms without understanding measurement limits, migration effects, or legal/political risks.