Aaaaaand the no promotion rule has been (seemingly) rescinded and will be revised to only be spam of competitors.
Credit to Musk for changing course quickly.
But again, unforced error. I could have told you this was a bad idea.
I kind of wonder if this is intentional. If he came out with the reasonable rule first, there would be some small low-level of complaining for a while. Instead - roll out something obviously bad. Eat a bit of backlash. Move to something reasonable. People happy.
Bigger issue (regardless of if my conspiracy theory is true), I'm starting to see more middle-of-the-road tech people being unhappy with decisions like this. These people are Elon's core constituency of powerful/influential people.