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.
Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!
Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.
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Won’t deny anything. All streaming platforms are reachable via a browser and there are trivial ways to make it full screen.
Yeah, it’s not like anyone bought a Disney + sub because it was available in the Tesla lol
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.
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”.
Look, Elon single handedly builds rockets to Mars. He built your Tesla and it’s basically a spaceship with wheels. What could possibly be more luxurious?
Exactly! I was looking into getting not only car, but rooftop solar with an expensive battery from Tesla, till that man lost his mind.
They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.
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I mean, there’s probably very limited value in having a streaming service for the front display in a car anyway. The only time you’d use it is when you’ve got half an hour to kill while you’re charging on the go.
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That’s motivated thinking, not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the uneasy feeling when trying to balance opposing thoughts. If someone’s blindly following BS, what they are distinctly lacking, is cognitive dissonance.
Firmware update: vehicle now blocked from all McDonald’s drive-thru’s after Elon spilled his coffee this morning. It was hot.
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.
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.
Not just very bad. Fucked up her vajayjay bad.
I can’t even imagine the artist they have to call in to skin graft a vulva.
There are amazing surgeons out there.
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.
I know this because someone reminds everyone every single time this lawsuit gets mentioned in any context
I mean your name is kinda on point
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Legit question. Are Tesla OS hackable yet? I would love to have full control over my car.
Ive spent a lot of time looking but it doesn’t seem like it. I’m honestly shocked no one has hacked it for more power.
Seem shocking. So many people gut the motor and controllers but for some reason the cars are not hackable?
I wouldn’t say they’re not hackable. Nothing is unhackable. Just haven’t seen anyone do it.
No one tell him about the myriad of other ways to watch streaming content while the car is actually in fucking motion.
arg! I’m a non-douche guy who is #70,000 on the Cybertruck list. I honestly don’t know if I want to continue supporting this douchebag, but Tesla is currently a superior product at the moment when it comes to charging and range. I’m just torn.
Superior product? The truck that can’t go up gentle hills?
Please keep me honest here, but isn’t the Cybertruck the fastest production truck in existence?
Honestly I don’t know, but “fastest” isn’t usually the primary goal of trucks. Going up gentle hills is, however, generally desired.
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.
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.
I think they’re looking for more a consumer perspective. Disney will probably sue for a breach of contract, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow ended up signing a TOS that allows Tesla to make changes whenever they want. From a consumer perspective, definitely legal to just remove an app. False advertising? Nah, when you buy the car/use the infotainment center, you’re agreeing to a TOS that requires you give your first born to the gigafactory they built.
Seriously though, it’s very standard practice that a TOS includes language that the service can change in quality at any given time with no warning.
What a thin-skinned wanker
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…
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.comThis 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
Anyone else think it’s odd that vehicles have tv services in them?
It’s probably intended for family road trips (or just kids in general).
You can’t watch it while driving. It’s for watching while charging or camping or whatever
You can use it when you turn on autopilot to distract yourself from pedestrians’ screams.
Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.
This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.
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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.
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It’s only accessible while parked.
And elon’s current mood.
Oh no, now what will I watch while autopilot launches me into the side of a truck?
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But I wanted to die to Moana :(
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
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!
Schafrillas time
LET ME CROSS THAT LINE ELON YOU BASTARD
[NEURALINK CHIP DETECTED, NOW MODULATING YOUR EMOTIONS TO WITHIN ACCEPTABLE LEVELS]
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Why not?
