- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
*Original Post*
Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.
A company being able to deactivate your purchased property is absolutely dystopian
Not absolutely, because a company being able to deactivate your purchased property for ulterior reasons is more dystopian.
I also suspect the rapper wasn’t exactly praising the cybertruck, so that would add “for
insultingmisrepresenting? a company”. That’s even more dystopian.
So stupid. So petty. Elon needs to grow the fuck up.
“Free speech absolutist”
Just wanted to say, huge props for editing the post and title when you found out it was debunked. That’s so important and too many people just don’t take that step when they learn, so upvoted for that
Clippy moment 📎💬
Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else’s property
As much as this sounds real, it’s not.
We have a picture of the letter in this post. If you have any proof, the onus is on you to provide it.
The only vehicle I will ever buy is one I have full and total control over. No remote shutdown, no DRM, no limp-home mode, nothing to prevent me from using it and enjoying it.
LOL registered previously in your name OR in your possession…
So Tesla doesn’t even give a shit if the guy still owns the vehicle, they deactivated it because he owned it at one point in time.
He could have sold it to some poor fuck who now has a bricked Cyber truck and Tesla don’t give a fuck.
I thought it was forbidden by tesla to resell these things?
They tried that with the Founders Series but they walked back after they found out sales were slow.
Verge reported there are signs the video may be fix and Tesla posted to confirm that it was indeed fake.
https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Tesla’s reply: “This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely.”
Normally I would care that it’s a fake story but in this case I don’t mind spreading it. That guy needs to pay for what he has done to our country.
The worst part is, I don’t think you’re even joking
You know I might be just crazy enough to have even upvoted the original post.
Seems unfair for only one side to have weaponized fake news
That’s always the justification isn’t it?
See all this does is mislead people who might otherwise talk about legitimate grievances about Tesla. Now they have easily disproved bullshit to spew and will look like idiots who are trapped in liberal media bubbles if they try to talk about this with anyone who’s paying attention.
The only advantage we have is the truth, don’t let that go.
I don’t feel bad for losers that bought Nazi cars and trucks. You should have known better. And people expect these people to go to space and not randomly kill people?