cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/15293533
Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.
From the king of “free speech.” 🙄
The fascist dictator at the helm remotely bricking customers $100k private vehicles will surely improve the brands image and sales performance!
I don’t really care if this is real or not, or if the song sucks, or if it’s a banger, or if it never existed.
None of that is what’s concerning.
The concerning thing for me is that, even if it’s fake, everyone just kinda accepting that Tesla can, and would, remotely deactivate a vehicle, when it may be in motion, and may be in a dangerous or otherwise hazardous location where losing control could mean that people die…
And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?
I could give a fuck less if they deactivate his… Idk, heated seat subscription, or autopilot, or (insert stupid feature here). But making it so the vehicle can’t drive? For a car you paid money to “own”?
What the actual fuck everyone?
Boycott. That’s all that I can say. … Not that I wasn’t already planning on doing that…
Google it and you’ll see tons of websites telling this was faked.
E.g. that it’s highly illegal to stop a car on the road, contradictory information on tesla display (failed update and cease and desist, don’t go together. Also return to dealer while being disabled?), addressed name in letter is not the real name, hyphen in wrong place, etc. And tesla (obviously) claimed it’s false.
I’m not saying this is proof but saying there are a lot of red flags. Any update from him? Not that I could find. A stunt perhaps to gain publicity?
Don’t feel bad for dumbasses who bought Nazi cars.
In any sane world that would be a trivial lawsuit to win
doubtful since a case would be in texas with the judge who owns tesla shares
That’s why they said sane
Totally reasonable. I wish every electronic device would brick itself if it heard you talking shit about it. People are too rude to toasters.
“Alright Sparky, if you burn the toast again, it’s off to metal recycling for you!”
Your wish would destroy the printers market
HP are already doing that with the policy on bootleg ink and toner.
HP is a tax on people who don’t know about Brother
Cannot come quick enough.
Theyre bricking themselves for free
I’m pretty sure my older hp printer heard me talking vaguely about my 3d printer that was being a pain and went on strike. “Printing Head not found”
The clankers won’t spare you when the AI extermination starts.
Rude? No, no no, that’s a misunderstand. It’s call percussion maintenance SLAP
Hey, don’t judge. My toaster is into it!
I’m sure he’s REAL motivated to clean up his dis track in order to use a vehicle that was bad enough to warrant a dis track.
I’m not going to listen to it but apparently it isn’t a dis track, it is a load of wank about how rich he is that he can afford a Cybertruck.
Apparently the author also declined to listen to it, but they are a Journalist; it is their job to listen to it.
This is vital context. They didn’t disable his truck because he talked trash about it. He loves his Cybertruck. They disabled it because he’s black and dances around like a black person while he’s talking about it, and that means he’s not welcome at the party. If he was Tim Pool making a song about how much he loves his Cybertruck they’d have invited him to the next event to put it on stage.
![[UPDATE: Fake] They made his car "cease & desist"](https://lemmus.org/pictrs/image/6609c476-3552-4e96-bcb9-0ae04d5118d5.webp){kind=link}