Tesla Is Erasing Its Own History. Pre-2019 blog posts, founding climate manifesto taken down : evs

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As long as they also erase their future

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

I just want them to dump Elon. They have a lot of potentially good products (other than Cybertruck).

I do wonder if there’s been any brain drain at any of his companies. I certainly wouldn’t want to work for him.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is similar to the foreshadowing of when Google took 'don't be evil' out of its manifesto.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They didn't take it down. They just shoved it in-between a bunch of language about how great advertising is. They buried it just like your family buried Grandma.

Except instead of dirt, it was shit, and instead of Grandma, it was all of humanity's hopes and dreams of privacy and a beautiful technology-driven future.

[+] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I don't think it is fair to say that he's trying to sabotage EVs in general. If he did want that, he'd probably not open up the supercharger network for other EVs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't believe so. I remember while Tesla was trying to emerge, the automotive industry (literally every car company), was trying to block their factories/plants from being built in US and from direct car buying (direct to consumer). Makes me think of the Tucker cars.

Thats a lot of work and opposition to face only to run a company to the ground. I think he was always an ass who sided whichever way for money. He really pushed ideas of being climate conscious, EVs with Tesla, appealing to those that were willing to support, purchase, invest, etc. Now that Tesla is successful I feel like he gave up "pandering" to that group of supporters he never truly aligned with and now he can be himself... Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I've noticed this quite a while ago when I was following their research. A bunch of their papers seem to have vanished from the internet starting a couple years ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not only it's history, X erases it's future too.

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