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.

LastYearsPumpkin,

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.

JoMiran,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

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,

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?

runswithjedi,

They’re probably thinking, “I didn’t want to watch Disney+ anyway.” Such is the power of cognitive dissonance.

jonne,

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.

runswithjedi,

Exactly my point. Cognitive dissonance is very powerful.

MotoAsh,

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.

BolexForSoup,
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What’s ridiculous is other car manufacturers are probably going to follow suit re: “we can do literally whatever we want.” It is open season over there right now. How long before they put your speakers or radio behind a subscription?

Did you read Mozilla’s report on privacy with modern cars? It’s absolutely insane.

I have a 2016 Mazda and let me tell you, as of a week ago I resolved to spend a lot more money keeping that car running, because I have no desire to participate in this shit show.

garretraziel,

They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.

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

FalseDiamond,
@FalseDiamond@sh.itjust.works avatar

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,
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Zerlyna,
@Zerlyna@lemmy.world avatar

Not just very bad. Fucked up her vajayjay bad.

vivadanang,

I can’t even imagine the artist they have to call in to skin graft a vulva.

violetraven,
@violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There are amazing surgeons out there.

TechyDad,
@TechyDad@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Ooops,
Ooops avatar

She also went to court for a rather low sum that would only have covered her expenses, but the jury thought otherwise...

thecrotch,

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

vivadanang,

I mean your name is kinda on point

BaardFigur,

Protip: Just don’t buy anything by Elon Musk

badbytes,

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

BaardFigur,

Why did they have Disney+ to begin with lol

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

Why not?

Reddit_Is_Trash,

Anyone else think it’s odd that vehicles have tv services in them?

LostWon,

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

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

You can’t watch it while driving. It’s for watching while charging or camping or whatever

AeonFelis, (edited )

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

richteratmosphere,

I just received a Tesla software update and Disney+ still works.

gamingdexter,
@gamingdexter@lemmy.ml avatar

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

uno,

Realistically Elon will be kicked off from the CEO position long before that.

Grass,

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.

PrincessLeiasCat,

No one tell him about the myriad of other ways to watch streaming content while the car is actually in fucking motion.

jaschen,

arg! I’m a non-douche guy who is ,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.

totallynotarobot,

Superior product? The truck that can’t go up gentle hills?

jaschen,

Please keep me honest here, but isn’t the Cybertruck the fastest production truck in existence?

totallynotarobot,

Honestly I don’t know, but “fastest” isn’t usually the primary goal of trucks. Going up gentle hills is, however, generally desired.

Blackmist,

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.

bill_buttlicker,

It’s only accessible while parked.

YerbaYerba,

And elon’s current mood.

BaardFigur,

Autopilot + streaming services sure sounds like a good combo

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

So, have conservatives started buying his cars en masse yet because of these shenanigans?

vagrantprodigy,

Some of them have. My neighbor not only bought one but also painted his garage red with Tesla logos all over it

cedarmesa,
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    vagrantprodigy,

    His Tesla is actually his least annoying vehicle. He also has a motorcycle and large truck, both of which have been modified to make more noise, and he likes to rev them up at all hours of the day and night. He doesn’t take them anywhere, just goes out, makes noise, goes back inside. It’s very pathetic.

    MonsiuerPatEBrown,

    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

    eestileib,

    Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.

    This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.

    fhek,

    This guys skin is so thin it’s translucent.

    thecrotch,

    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.

    dangblingus,

    Punishing your customers because Mickey Mouse made you cry. Just Elon Things!

    TheBat,
    @TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

    What a thin-skinned wanker

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