UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
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Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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This is a good case to battle the shit out of Tesla in court and set a landmark verdict on the "you buy but don't own" abuse.
Usually this would however require that courts are capable of reaching proper verdicts, that the government actually cared about the people, that consumer protection agencies had any footing etc. Alas, all of them are infiltrated by the big capital corporations.
Also, how is it protected from a song? Satire and parody are fair game.
or his next hit song: burn down the dealerships /s
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 think this actually has a chance, but only because it affects millionaires. in any case the outcome would be very positive as it would apply elsewhere.
Eh effecting millionaires has less effect realistically, but if this could hit the billionaires by having a large settlement that cuts into revenue and effects the stock price you may see a change in tune regarding this type of behavior. Either way I agree this one could actually do something and considering the short term thinking of this administration I could see dump pushing this to Rule against tesla to spite elmo and then consequently giving us a default rulling for other vehicles. What's the saying a broken clock can still be right twice a day, gotta take the small wins where we can right now.