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Tesla has removed Disney+ from some of its vehicles amid Elon Musk having an online fight with Disney CEO Bob Iger. The fight started when Disney halted its advertising on X after Musk agreed with and amplified antisemitic content, for which he eventually apologized.

Every week, there’s a new drama with Elon Musk on X, formerly known as Twitter. It sometimes indirectly affects Tesla, but this time, it affects it directly.

The current drama stems from Musk giving support to an antisemitic post on X, which he didn’t initially apologize for, though admitted that it was a mistake a week later. He further apologized but was already attacking Disney. In the meantime, the result was a massive backlash, where many companies stopped advertising on X, including Apple and Disney.

Musk took a particular issue with frequent right-wing target Disney – in the interview when he apologized for the tweet, he attacked advertisers for pulling out almost in the same breath.

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[–] [email protected] 302 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Imagine buying an extremely expensive luxury vehicle, whose features are completely at the whim of some thin skinned billionaire.

Just remotely turning on and off different things in your car depending on who pissed him off, or pandered to him, that week.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LOL. Teslas cars are, for the most part, not "expensive luxury vehicles". The brand as a whole is on par with Ford in terms of pricing. The air of luxury is yet another fallacy we cooked up in our heads with no evidence to support it; just like "Elon is a genius".

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firmware update: vehicle now blocked from all McDonald’s drive-thru’s after Elon spilled his coffee this morning. It was hot.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The lawsuit you're referring to is about a poor old woman who got second degree burns, took McD to court and won, all while being slandered by the media for being some litigation happy grifter. Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I am aware, yes. The injuries she got were pretty bad. The attorneys also successfully argued that McDonald’s coffee was substantially hotter than any other coffee and that the degrees of difference caused the need for skin grafts. Colder coffee would simply not have caused that severity of injury.

But, as we all know: that doesn’t make for good headlines. So ‘woman sues over hot coffee’ is what stuck.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

And the whole "she spilled some mildly hot coffee and got dollar signs in her eyes" narrative was cooked up by McDonald's. They couldn't win in court, so they tried to shape the public narrative to portray the poor woman as seeking a payday.

In reality, she only initially wanted McDonald's to pay her medical bills. They could have made the entire thing go away for $20,000. Instead, McDonald's opted to spend likely millions not only on lawyers, but on a public relations campaign to defame this poor woman.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not just very bad. Fucked up her vajayjay bad.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know this because someone reminds everyone every single time this lawsuit gets mentioned in any context

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, now what will I watch while autopilot launches me into the side of a truck?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am sure you can still watch OAN

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But I wanted to die to Moana :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

See the light as it shines on the sea It's blinding But no one knows, how deep it goes And it seems like it's calling out to me, so come find me And let me know What's beyond that line, will I cross that line

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LET ME CROSS THAT LINE ELON YOU BASTARD

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See the light as it shines

Did your granny say listen to your heart Be who you are on the inside I need three words to tear her argument apart Your granny lied! I'd rather be...

Shiny!! Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck Scrub the deck and make it look...

Shiny!! I will sparkle like a wealthy woman's neck Just a sec!

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Poor people can't afford Teslas so it's fine.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the famous cancel culture that the Right hates so much. I'm sure they'll turn on Elon for this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They already aren't buying electric cars lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The whole "Elon swings hard right while trying to sell electric cars" is crazy. It would be like me selling "roll coal" kits and deciding that my market had to be Progressives because I was going to insult everyone on the right.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago

Punishing your customers because Mickey Mouse made you cry. Just Elon Things!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I was ever going to get a Tesla, this would convince me not to. It's bad enough when cars have built in features blocked by subscriptions like heated seats, or apps removed due to contract disputes like YouTube. But having your entire car at the whim of someone like this is wild. Imagine you can't use your GPS because you made a post he didn't like.

Also, is this legal? It kinda feels like extortion at least. Maybe false advertisement if it was an advertised feature.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also, is this legal?

Legal? Defintely: it's at most a civil disagreement between corporate-preople. If it were anyone other than Elon, I'd be sure that the contracts included some kind of termination clause that lets Tesla do this, possibly by still paying Disney+, possibly by paying Disney a termination fee. Because it's Elon, I'd say there's probably a lawsuit incoming, just as soon as Disney Legal's printers finish the gold leaf trim on 1000 page filing.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hold the fuck up, they've got televisions in cars?

And we're puzzled about why Tesla owners crash more than everyone else?

Mystery fucking solved, boys.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's only accessible while parked.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

And elon's current mood.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Anyone else think it's odd that vehicles have tv services in them?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This guys skin is so thin it’s translucent.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!

Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I would say 100 is optimistic. I think 0 might be a very reasonable number.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

this is the problem with being a simple customer of one of this asshole's businesses.. you are now part of his smelly little ideological campaign, whether you like it or not..

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was always evident since the beginning of Model S, that Tesla maintained full control of the car at all times. You never really own a Tesla.
We found that out many years ago, and already before Musk behaved clearly crazy as he does now, we decided we would never buy a Tesla under those terms.
Remember when he turned a Tesla off, because the owner gave it a bad customer review?

Today Tesla is not exactly known for good service:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tesla.com

This was also so predictable, turning off features when the car is resold:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

What a thin-skinned wanker

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

as long as Musk is hurting customers on purpose for his personal vedettas I will laugh at his claims of making the earth a better place.

the billionaire-mindset is toxicity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

As a Tesla model 3 owner, musk scares me on his lunatic whims that he could just fuck my car over. Only reason I got a Tesla was because it is one of the top EVs. Love my Tesla but hate musk. The company would be so much better without that deranged sad little man.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

A classic petty oligarch tantrum.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the Tesla shareholders will be so pleased with this change. Rivian won't even need to make a decent R2 to have customers move over, Elon continues to keep screwing things up. He needs to stop and take a back seat on everything, mans an idiot when it comes to most changes/ideas

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I just received a Tesla software update and Disney+ still works.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So, have conservatives started buying his cars en masse yet because of these shenanigans?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Oh no, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.

This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Legit question. Are Tesla OS hackable yet? I would love to have full control over my car.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I was thinking it was weird to watch Disney while driving, but I guess people who can afford an unused car can afford to have kids while keeping them both fed and entertained.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you imagine trying to explain this headline to someone from say, 1970? They’d have a stroke.

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