Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger
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.
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.
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".
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?
Firmware update: vehicle now blocked from all McDonald’s drive-thru’s after Elon spilled his coffee this morning. It was hot.
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.
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.
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.
Not just very bad. Fucked up her vajayjay bad.
I can't even imagine the artist they have to call in to skin graft a vulva.
There are amazing surgeons out there.
I know this because someone reminds everyone every single time this lawsuit gets mentioned in any context
I mean your name is kinda on point
They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.
Exactly! I was looking into getting not only car, but rooftop solar with an expensive battery from Tesla, till that man lost his mind.
Oh no, now what will I watch while autopilot launches me into the side of a truck?
Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.
Poor people can't afford Teslas so it's fine.
They're more likely to run over a pedestrian then get themselves hurt.
You can't actually watch the videos while driving tho.
I will admit I wish there were physical buttons for some things.
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.
Ah yes, the famous cancel culture that the Right hates so much. I'm sure they'll turn on Elon for this.
They already aren't buying electric cars lol
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.
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.
Punishing your customers because Mickey Mouse made you cry. Just Elon Things!
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's only accessible while parked.
And elon's current mood.
Anyone else think it's odd that vehicles have tv services in them?
You can use it when you turn on autopilot to distract yourself from pedestrians' screams.
It's probably intended for family road trips (or just kids in general).
You can't watch it while driving. It's for watching while charging or camping or whatever
Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!
Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.
Won't deny anything. All streaming platforms are reachable via a browser and there are trivial ways to make it full screen.
Yeah, it’s not like anyone bought a Disney + sub because it was available in the Tesla lol
This guys skin is so thin it’s translucent.
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.
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..
It was always evident since the beginning of Model S, that Tesla maintained full control of the car at all times. You never really own a Tesla.
We found that out many years ago, and already before Musk behaved clearly crazy as he does now, we decided we would never buy a Tesla under those terms.
Remember when he turned a Tesla off, because the owner gave it a bad customer review?
Today Tesla is not exactly known for good service:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tesla.com
This was also so predictable, turning off features when the car is resold:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update
What a thin-skinned wanker
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
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.
Thankfully they really aren't anymore. Plenty of new evs out there with sunstancially better quality now a days.
Cosmetic build quality is at the bottom of my list of concerns when buying an EV (which has very limited selection still, and consists of 90% inefficient crossovers).
The Model 3 is one of the most efficient vehicles ever made, which is precisely why it can be so inexpensive.
It also has excellent driving dynamics and some super obvious features other OEMs lack like a decent app where you can control almost everything from your phone, a built in omnidirectional dashcam, the ability to run the HVAC while parked or adjust the charging speed. The seats are also incredibly comfortable.
And, most importantly, access to Tesla's supercharger network, which is thankfully in the process of opening to other vehicles.
True. I was going to go with Hyundais New Ionic 6 but the model 3 has so much more room and the supercharger network it was kind of a no brainer unfortunately
Legacy automakers have just been shitting the bed for decades. The entire industry is terrified of any real innovation. Tesla hired Apple engineers to design their infotainment system and apps.
A classic petty oligarch tantrum.
I'm sure the Tesla shareholders will be so pleased with this change. Rivian won't even need to make a decent R2 to have customers move over, Elon continues to keep screwing things up. He needs to stop and take a back seat on everything, mans an idiot when it comes to most changes/ideas
I just received a Tesla software update and Disney+ still works.
Oh no, anyway.
I was thinking it was weird to watch Disney while driving, but I guess people who can afford an unused car can afford to have kids while keeping them both fed and entertained.
So, have conservatives started buying his cars en masse yet because of these shenanigans?
Some of them have. My neighbor not only bought one but also painted his garage red with Tesla logos all over it
Can you imagine trying to explain this headline to someone from say, 1970? They’d have a stroke.
Better yet, tell that to Tesla
Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.
This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.
Epic Games just showed how to fix this. Disney should sue them and gain the ability to install their own store. It is just a modified version of Android after all. If Elon doesn't like it then should create his own OS from scratch...
Epic only won because it was discovered that Google was paying off other OEMs to make their app store the default.
Epic lost to Apple because they don't have anyone to bribe. Much like Tesla.
No one tell him about the myriad of other ways to watch streaming content while the car is actually in fucking motion.
arg! I'm a non-douche guy who is #70,000 on the Cybertruck list. I honestly don't know if I want to continue supporting this douchebag, but Tesla is currently a superior product at the moment when it comes to charging and range. I'm just torn.
Superior product? The truck that can’t go up gentle hills?
Please keep me honest here, but isn't the Cybertruck the fastest production truck in existence?
Honestly I don't know, but "fastest" isn't usually the primary goal of trucks. Going up gentle hills is, however, generally desired.