Yup, and exposing just a key pieces of information (title, and some of the meta/og tags) without the body would limit the potential for abuse, while still being fairly useful for legitimate uses.
That's overly broad. But maybe it should be illegal to have exceptions only for major monopolies.
They’re the ones choosing to use tech that’s blocking you. Proposing to make it illegal for them to make that choice or to speak to you differently than they speak to other users of their site may give you some idea of the resistance you’re likely to face to this proposal.
ie. if your internet host just hands out information, you are free to block/throttle as you please.
as soon as you are taking money (operate as a business), you are accountable and must not discriminate.
so: > Does a website operator have to handle whatever arbitrary traffic you want to throw at them
absolutely, yes!