[PatrickAuld]

> “We will continue to fight to protect our members’ ability to control the information they make available on LinkedIn.”

LinkedIn has full control over this, it's their site. What they are fighting for is the ability to choose who gets public access to various pieces of information; which its member do not get control over.

[sabujp]

This is still very confusing, why didn't they completely block it from scraping without a login?

[gizmodo59]

Because they won't get the traffic from search engines. Searching for a full name very often leads to a LinkedIn page in top 10 results.