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The challenge seems to be that 1-3 in your list are highly subjective. 1. Requires a common definition of spamming. If a bot is posting headlines for the NYT on their official account is that spam? A person really eagerly replying to everyone about their favorite band? Someone trying really hard to sell you their diet pills? Musk seems to think all these are equally OK (except maybe the nyt bot). 2. Musk has been san…
1. Yes, but in practice people have a good shared understanding of what spam means. Email filters have few problems with defining this. To answer your questions: 1a. No, automated posting is not spamming any more than a mailing list is the same thing as spam. 1b. No, a fan "really eagerly replying" is not spam. 1c. Someone "trying really hard" to sell diet pills can be, you've been too vague to answer there. Generall…
Musk himself claims that the only curtailment is "what is prohibited by law". This isn't some tweet dragged from his history, either. It's from two days ago, and is on this topic.