[jammur]

Point #2 is technically correct, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to block people from recruiting your employees at your place of business, while they are working.

Lyft isn't trying to block Uber from contacting Lyft drivers at home, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, etc. They are trying to block them from abusing the Lyft service to recruit. It would be like Apple trying to block Google from waltzing into their HQ and walking from desk to desk trying to recruit their employees.

[avalaunch]

Except they're not Lyft employees. They're independent contractors. They set their own schedule, choose where they wish to work, ect...

I still agree that it's perfectly legitimate for them to put forth effort to block recruiters but I think the fact that the drivers aren't employees does make it not quite as bad as your analogy.