The hand-wringing is because folks were smiling and winking at each other while trying to convince a fire department to stop protecting a house, all while holding cans of gas and matches.

Its horrible for Apple/Google to have this much power - I agree 100%. I don't know a solution. Its likely this was an algorithm gone crazy and not malicious.

The removal of ddos protection all the while smiling cause you know what will happen right after it gets removed is 100% malicious. And we, the tech community, appear completely ok with it.

You have to admit it feels hypocritic.