A company being able to deactivate your purchased property is absolutely dystopian

"Free speech absolutist"

So stupid. So petty. Elon needs to grow the fuck up.

Clippy moment 📎💬

Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else's property

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.

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.

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

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?

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

Land of the free

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."

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.

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.

Time for a sequel to "United Breaks Guitars."

"Tesla bricked me truuuk."

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.

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

If I made a song about legs, they would no longer ride my bike? Nah, looks like bicycles are the "Linux" of the streets.

For those who don't know, this shit is protected by the freedom of speech