Tesla has removed Disney+ from some of its vehicles amid Elon Musk having an online fight with Disney CEO Bob...

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.

  • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.chEnglish
    3013·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      8815·
      11 months ago

      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”.

      • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
        2·
        11 months ago

        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?

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
      723·
      11 months ago

      Firmware update: vehicle now blocked from all McDonald’s drive-thru’s after Elon spilled his coffee this morning. It was hot.

      • FalseDiamond@sh.itjust.works
        6111·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
          353·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • TechyDad@lemmy.world
            31·
            11 months ago

            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.

        • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
          151·
          11 months ago

          I know this because someone reminds everyone every single time this lawsuit gets mentioned in any context

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        11·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        7·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • badbytes@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Exactly! I was looking into getting not only car, but rooftop solar with an expensive battery from Tesla, till that man lost his mind.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    1464·
    11 months ago

    Oh no, now what will I watch while autopilot launches me into the side of a truck?

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          14·
          11 months ago

          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

            • don@lemm.ee
              4·
              11 months ago

              [NEURALINK CHIP DETECTED, NOW MODULATING YOUR EMOTIONS TO WITHIN ACCEPTABLE LEVELS]

          • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
            8·
            11 months ago

            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!

  • pensivepangolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1071·
    11 months ago

    Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.

    • wizzor
      92·
      11 months ago

      You can’t actually watch the videos while driving tho.

      I will admit I wish there were physical buttons for some things.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        161·
        11 months ago

        It’s not about watching video, it’s about having to navigate a touchpad menu while driving. I was in a car share the other day that had a screen like that, and while driving on the highway, it changed itself from the navigation screen to tire pressure information, forcing the driver to exit that inane notification and navigate all the way back to the navigation screen, again, on the highway. It’s absolutely insane.

      • TechyDad@lemmy.world
        91·
        11 months ago

        The whole “Elon swings hard right while trying to sell electric cars” is crazy. It would be like me selling “roll coal” kits and deciding that my market had to be Progressives because I was going to insult everyone on the right.

      • Enk1@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        You’d be surprised actually now that Musk has become what they think of as a counter-culture icon. Some Trump voters out there trading in their 4WD pickups for Cybertrucks.

  • Omega@lemmy.world
    503·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
      112·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • Supercritical@lemmy.world
        6·
        11 months ago

        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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    507·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • LostWon@lemmy.ca
      5·
      11 months ago

      It’s probably intended for family road trips (or just kids in general).

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      11 months ago

      You can use it when you turn on autopilot to distract yourself from pedestrians’ screams.

  • Lophostemon@aussie.zone
    311·
    11 months ago

    Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!

    Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      11 months ago

      Right? I’ve never seen anyone so petty. And for some reason I can’t avoid him, he’s fucking everywhere. He’s this decade’s Paris Hilton.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    21·
    11 months ago

    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…

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    as long as Musk is hurting customers on purpose for his personal vedettas I will laugh at his claims of making the earth a better place.

    the billionaire-mindset is toxicity

  • ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world
    163·
    11 months ago

    As a Tesla model 3 owner, musk scares me on his lunatic whims that he could just fuck my car over. Only reason I got a Tesla was because it is one of the top EVs. Love my Tesla but hate musk. The company would be so much better without that deranged sad little man.