[UPDATE: fake] They made his car "cease & desist"

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 insulting misrepresenting? a company". That's even more dystopian.

I'm just glad they got a power hungry, austistic lunatic in charge now, so everyone can see this is absolutely the end game, before this becomes normalized and people like me get called removed for not wanting a car that can be remote deactivated.

Tell that to the gaming industry

He won't

Also Dinna Eskin, Esq. (wanted to make sure I included the title so I don’t get sued) and all the other soulless people blindly following orders to take home that paycheck and cash in on that stock

*die

We need to make sure that people can't have this kind of power.

He is a symptom of the real problem.

This is a major feature of nearly all cars now. Dealerships can remotely track and disable cars when people fall behind on their payments. That's because so many people fall behind on payments nowadays, they need easy mechanisms for dealing with it. America is cooked.

This should indocate to everyone that you cannot rely on any car to work that has this capability.

So here's the neat part! They just make it so that you technically are renting the car and so they can brick it up all they want since technically they own the vehicle!

same with the F-35s sold to other countries. and those cost a lot more than even a cybertruck. imagine it being disabled mid-flight. probably entirely possible.

Oi! Don't bring clippy into this! He was an innocent clip from a better era! More like a qevlarr@lemmy.world moment 👎🖕!!

Edit: lol my poor clippy just getting hated on

You say that, but your avatar is not Clippy.

Also, how is it protected from a song? Satire and parody are fair game.

I mean, maybe it could work right now, considering how elmo and dump had a falling out. People might be able to leverage dumps pettiness to get a verdict on something like this. Now would be the time to try, though.

I thought Tesla fired their PR department?

That's strange you don't think the PR department takes its marching orders from their furher directly

Similarly, if you piss off Ferrari, they’ll ban you from buying another.

Calling it buying is the problem. It is proprietary internet connected garbage. It is a rental you paid buyer money for. No one owns a Tesla. No Tesla is for sale, and neither is any car that runs proprietary internet connect software. Someone else ultimately controls it. That person is the real owner. Primitive idiots struggle to understand this exceptionally simple concept. Terms and conditions are you selling your rights as a citizen willing to become a slave to someone else. It isn't normal. It exists because people are not smart enough to say no and stand up for themselves. I don't rent one of these shit cars, or watch TV with terms and conditions, or run shitty operating systems, or stalkerware removed myself to bezos' camera on the front of my home as a doorbell. None of this is actually normal. It's fools selling their rights as citizens in a democracy for peanuts and IOUs.

If car companies can't remotely deactivate your vehicle, how will they be able to extort you and harass you and sell you out to the police?

This has been standard in every car made after 2003

If your car is newer than that, the police can request the car company disable your engine.

It's fucked up and evil, but it isn't new, just the first time it's been blatantly abused

Gods yes. Watched half the video and he's hyping the truck. "I'm rich BEEOTCH!" is the theme. Musk doesn't want, ahem, "black folks", making his truck a gansta thang.

Big Huey’s track, reportedly titled “Cyberflop” based on social media buzz, lampooned the Cybertruck’s design flaws and reliability issues, echoing widespread criticisms that have plagued the vehicle since its 2019 unveiling

Whoever told you that is your enemy

They do though, so thats a total lie. Try getting into your car that you paid for firmware, see if tesla locks you down.

I'll note none of my old cars have this problem. Don't buy new cars people.

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.

Anyone who buys a fucking motor vehicle that comes with Terms and Conditions agreement

Increasingly looking like "all of them".

Assuming this is real, I don't see how this is legal? There's no way Tesla would win in court under any sane judge. If they bought the car outright and fully own it (i.e. didn't lease it from Tesla), then that is the car owner's property.

I'm fairly certain that it won't go before a judge. If Tesla doesn't have a forced arbitration clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_clause in their contracts I would be truly surprised.

The manufacturer can't, effectively, sabotage your property without consequence.

I don't own a Tesla and dont have access to a US contract, but it wouldnt be far fetched that there's something in there about Tesla reserving the right to use a kill switch at their discretion.

I truly hope this is not real,

You and me both. But we live in a stupid timeline, and I can no longer tell what's outrageously real and what's rage bait.

I don’t see how this is legal?

Oh, sweet summer child. This is the USA we're talking about. Potus shows every day that him being pissed off about something basically makes it illegal unless you have more money than him. It only follows that his subjects take his example.

There’s no way Tesla would win in court under any sane judge.

And more than half the legal system has been either replaced or intimidated into submission.

Sorry if I sound terminally pessimistic here. In January I still might have held out some hope for a peaceful solution, but by now it's clear: this country will collapse, one way or another. This is not sustainable, and there will be no peaceful transition of power. I mean they're already putting all sorts of measures in place to make sure they "win" the next elections. And even if Democrats could win somehow - what then? The country is already fucked up. IMO, beyond repair. It needs to be replaced.

You're assuming the court judges aren't just paid schills for corporate interests.

I mean... It depends on the terms you sign while purchasing.

I dunno if they still do this, but over a decade ago, Apple used to put in their Terms of Service that (paraphrasing) you are only paying for the service associated with an iPhone. The physical hardware is on loan to you and still belongs to the company, and they have the right to do whatever they want with it as their property. Deactivate it remotely, recall it, wipe it, etc.

During tech expo's, Apple would remotely disable features of any iPhone in the area so you couldn't take photos, record video, connect to the Internet, etc. while you were on the show floor. You had to leave the event before your phone's capabilities returned.

Tesla, dealing in an electronic vehicle that is connected remotely to their services, could absolutely do one of these legal contracts during the sale. And if you sign it, you have no legal leg to stand on when they disable and/or recall your vehicle.

The loophole is that while you own the car, you only license the software that allows it to run. They didn't take the car away, "just" terminated the license 🤬

https://youtu.be/e9LJh81n_zA

I thought it was forbidden by tesla to resell these things?

That just makes Linux sound subpar and inferior for 99% of most of society.

.........ok, I guess you have a point. It really IS the linux of the streets!

Not quite, Tesla is not a part of the government.

... yet.

Yes, but they can retaliate with petty shit in this way. All freedom of speech means is that there are no criminal charges against him for doing this - the government isn't coming after him.

Free speech protects you from the government oppressing your speech, not a private corporation.

Yeah, that's literally not how any of this constitutional stuff works.

Free speech is your right to say what you think without the government censoring you. But it has limits and common misunderstandings:

It's not a "free-for-all." You can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater just to cause a panic. You can't tell lies about someone to ruin their reputation (that's called defamation).

It doesn't apply to private companies. Your boss can fire you for saying something they don't like. Twitter (X) can ban you from their platform. A restaurant can kick you out for being rude. These are private entities with their own rules, not the government.

Analogy: The First Amendment means the police can't arrest you for wearing a shirt that says "The Mayor is a cunt." However, your boss at a private company can still fire you for wearing that same shirt to work if they think it's unprofessional.

See shit posts like this are why I'm in favor of dismantling the department of education, if it produces such ignorant outcomes, it creates more harm than good.

At least if you were an uneducated hick from some Boondock wastewater town, I could have a shred of understanding for not having had the opportunity to pay attention in 3rd grade social studies.

Fucking red hat wearing so called constitutionalists who literally don't know what it fucking says.

Selling your Tesla is an odd take. To whom are condoning the purchase of a Tesla?

You are dividing the working class just like the billionaires want you to do. You are demanding that people make a sacrifice of tens of thousands of dollars to accomplish very little.

This is another fucking purity test that divides the left and makes us incapable of handling the existential threat that is the republican party.

People who bought cybertrucks? Yeah, fuck 'em. Elon's right-wing bullshit was very public by the point the cybertruck was released. Those people aren't with us anyway.

But you're discounting over a million people in the US, who generally lean very left, who generally also have the finances to help support political action against this extraordinarily corrupt and dangerous right-wing regime.

Kill the snake, then we can go back to squabbling.

And honestly, any of those cars that can be remotely deactivated. I'm shopping now, and I really don't like all the tracking in cars these days...

This isn't specific to electric cars, vehicles equipped with On Star can be remotely disabled in the event of theft (and by extension I imagine a legal injunction). I imagine this extends to other vehicles also.

The real problem is the OTA updates and always-online nature of modern vehicles, not necessarily what powers them.

Except that it's all cars that do this why would the car being powered by electricity have any bearing. All cars have computers these days.

I don't think the rapper was even criticizing them. I think he was literally singing their praises.

Cybertruck's basically are in the bin. They have recalled them so many times and no longer have a sales campaign for them. Sure some get sold, but I bet fElon is giving a lot of them away to friends or sold under govt contract.

The problem is that doesn't really change stonk value. Tesla sells dreams and lies... cars just happen to be a useful byproduct.

My guess is publicity stunt:

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake

You wouldn't un-download a car would you??

They have the actual C & D letter in the pic and there are numerous articles about it. I think it's on you to prove it's not real at this point.

It’s not fair to call Elon “it.” You should have more respect for objects.

Not first time this happened: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/business/chechnya-kadyrov-musk-tesla-cybertruck-disabled

Yeah, me neither. It's just an attempt to gain publicity IMO.