Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger
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...
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.
They're probably thinking, "I didn't want to watch Disney+ anyway." Such is the power of cognitive dissonance.
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.
They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.
Protip: Just don't buy anything by Elon Musk
Exactly! I was looking into getting not only car, but rooftop solar with an expensive battery from Tesla, till that man lost his mind.
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.
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.
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.
Autopilot + streaming services sure sounds like a good combo
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
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.
Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!
Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.
I would say 100 is optimistic. I think 0 might be a very reasonable number.
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 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.comThis 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.
A classic petty oligarch tantrum.
Why did they have Disney+ to begin with lol
Why not?
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
Realistically Elon will be kicked off from the CEO position long before that.
I just received a Tesla software update and Disney+ still works.
Oh no, anyway.
Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.
This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.
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.
Can you imagine trying to explain this headline to someone from say, 1970? They’d have a stroke.
Better yet, tell that to Tesla
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...
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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.