[rayiner]

No that's not what's happening. What was happening is that the store clerk was noticing that an employee from a competitor was coming in and asking questions about the price, and then refused to answer the questions. The judge ordered LinkedIn to respond to the competitors HTTP requests.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Where do you draw the line between this and a DoS flood of HTTP requests? At some point a provider has to be able to rate limit requests to maintain service for legitimate users.

[rayiner]

I don't. I think owners of web servers should be able to selectively choose to respond to requests however they please (so long as they don't violate any e.g. civil rights laws).