A company being able to deactivate your purchased property is absolutely dystopian
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
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Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.
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.
You don't have to suspect anything, watch the video. He's hyping the Cybertruck, hyping, "I'm RICH BEEYOTCH!" This is Tesla trying to distance themselves from that message.
While that song and message are shit, so is Tesla.
This is peak face eating leopards content all around.
Also I wonder if a white rapper singing the same song would have had his shit-pyramid disabled as fast.
Tesla factories have had a racism problem for years.
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"Free speech absolutist"
So stupid. So petty. Elon needs to grow the fuck up.
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
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*die
We need to make sure that people can't have this kind of power.
He is a symptom of the real problem.
Clippy moment 📎💬
Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else's property
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.
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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.
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Imagine:
You have parking lots full of your cars that can't sell because your CEO is basically in the top 5 of horrible humans.
You have horror stories about kids burning alive in the cars because they couldn't open the doors.
You have a Rapper, with social following, in Detroit, Motor City, with a 100k model of your car who makes a song about how you're fucking up, and you shut down his 100k car and send a c&d.
Could you imagine a PR department being this bad at its job?
He could make a music video burning the thing to the ground and make his money back.
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This is what happens when you buy a car from a tech company. There is no reason that a Ts&Cs should ever come with a car - but here we are. For now, avoid any company that does things like this. Top of mind are Tesla and BMW
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 whore 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.
Similarly, if you piss off Ferrari, they’ll ban you from buying another.
Mr "freedom of speech absolutionist" hard at work I see
Hey maybe we shouldn't have a world where car companies can remotely deactivate your vehicle if you say mean things about them?
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?
Just looked up the lyrics and it's just Huey saying he drives a cybertruck because he's got money. I bet the only reason Musk hates it is because he's a racist shitbag
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Verge reported there are signs the video may be fix and Tesla posted to confirm that it was indeed fake.
https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Tesla's reply: "This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely."
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.
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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. The manufacturer can't, effectively, sabotage your property without consequence. I truly hope this is not real, and if it is, they bring this to court ASAP and get precedent to squash this type of insanity right off the bat. If Tesla gets away with this bullshit--again, if it's real--then other companies will very likely begin following suit.
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 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.
In any sane country, one of the hundreds of consumer protection laws would have a judge laugh as they threw it out.
any sane country
USA has left the chat
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Anyone who buys a fucking motor vehicle that comes with Terms and Conditions agreement, let alone one that can be spontaneously and remotely turned off... you're a fucking moron. And Tesla needs to be sued into oblivion. That shit should NOT be legal.
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Time for a sequel to "United Breaks Guitars."
"Tesla bricked me truuuk."
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LOL registered previously in your name OR in your possession....
So Tesla doesn't even give a shit if the guy still owns the vehicle, they deactivated it because he owned it at one point in time.
He could have sold it to some poor fuck who now has a bricked Cyber truck and Tesla don't give a fuck.
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For those who don't know, this shit is protected by the freedom of speech
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.
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Free speech protects you from the government oppressing your speech, not a private corporation.
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Just wanted to say, huge props for editing the post and title when you found out it was debunked. That's so important and too many people just don't take that step when they learn, so upvoted for that
seems like this should go to court - make tesla prove these claims, and explain how they're allowed to stifle both free speech and parody.
because this is absolute bullshit
I don’t feel bad for losers that bought Nazi cars and trucks. You should have known better. And people expect these people to go to space and not randomly kill people?
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