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Tesla owner with Mustang Mach-E reports threats on social media from Tesla fans

10 points by weare138 6y ago

nicbou 6y ago
This sort of behaviour makes me very wary of attracting any serious attention on the internet. I recently purged a lot of information from my public profiles, and replaced my name to make them harder to associate with me. Even then, I'm required by law to list my full name, full phone number and full address on the monetised website I run. My activity on a moderately sized city subreddit was enough. People made very vile, personal comments over petty things, and made throwaway accounts to harass me across threads. One took a liking to answering unrelated comments with my full name. I've seen people dig up mental health issues from other people's post history because of petty disagreements. This sort of behaviour makes me more and more reluctant to participate online. People forgot how it feels to be punched in the face, and behave in appalling ways.
strikelaserclaw 6y ago
Not surprising, it really is the stans that built popularity for a brand like Tesla when it was a struggling company. Now that it is very successful, these people don't just disappear, they probably even feel more emotional attachment, like they are a parent to a successful child.
supergirl 6y ago
this is PR
bloqs 6y ago
This is a PR stunt and likely fake. There is a huge amount of mud slinging going on in this area at the moment
jfengel 6y ago
I feel like the tech issue here isn't Tesla but about the way we don't think of death threats as a law enforcement issue. It doesn't even seem to have occurred to him to report this to the police. And with good reason: the police don't care and wouldn't take any action. The big social media have gotten a lot of attention for dealing with national-scale threats such as COVID misinformation and violence provoked on behalf of politicians. But ordinary people live in an everyday swamp of threats. We don't take them seriously because we know that practically none of them are going to result in actual violence. Why is that permitted? In a lot of cases there is plenty of information that could be used to track them. Facebook knows who you are, to a scary degree. What would happen if Facebook sent everything they had to police when they saw a death threat? I know it would freak the civil libertarians around here completely out. Personally, if the resulting "chilling effect" chills out death threats, I'd be good with that. If it meant that people got off Facebook for fear of being unable to stop themselves from committing crimes, again, so much the better. Threats are illegal. They don't stop being illegal just because there are literally billions of them per day.

10 points by weare138 6y ago

This sort of behaviour makes me very wary of attracting any serious attention on the internet. I recently purged a lot of information from my public profiles, and replaced my name to make them harder to associate with me. Even then, I'm required by law to list my full name, full phone number and full address on the monetised website I run. My activity on a moderately sized city subreddit was enough. People made very vile, personal comments over petty things, and made throwaway accounts to harass me across threads. One took a liking to answering unrelated comments with my full name. I've seen people dig up mental health issues from other people's post history because of petty disagreements. This sort of behaviour makes me more and more reluctant to participate online. People forgot how it feels to be punched in the face, and behave in appalling ways.

strikelaserclaw 6y ago

Not surprising, it really is the stans that built popularity for a brand like Tesla when it was a struggling company. Now that it is very successful, these people don't just disappear, they probably even feel more emotional attachment, like they are a parent to a successful child.

supergirl 6y ago

this is PR

bloqs 6y ago

This is a PR stunt and likely fake. There is a huge amount of mud slinging going on in this area at the moment

jfengel 6y ago

I feel like the tech issue here isn't Tesla but about the way we don't think of death threats as a law enforcement issue. It doesn't even seem to have occurred to him to report this to the police. And with good reason: the police don't care and wouldn't take any action. The big social media have gotten a lot of attention for dealing with national-scale threats such as COVID misinformation and violence provoked on behalf of politicians. But ordinary people live in an everyday swamp of threats. We don't take them seriously because we know that practically none of them are going to result in actual violence. Why is that permitted? In a lot of cases there is plenty of information that could be used to track them. Facebook knows who you are, to a scary degree. What would happen if Facebook sent everything they had to police when they saw a death threat? I know it would freak the civil libertarians around here completely out. Personally, if the resulting "chilling effect" chills out death threats, I'd be good with that. If it meant that people got off Facebook for fear of being unable to stop themselves from committing crimes, again, so much the better. Threats are illegal. They don't stop being illegal just because there are literally billions of them per day.