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Comment by AlecSchueler | Hacker News Reader

Why are Tesla related posts still being flagged? Mr Musk stepped out of his governmental role so criticism of his assets is no longer unavoidably political. My understanding was that criticism of Tesla was for the past few months seen as a political action and that many here don't want any inflammatory political discussions about the current US administration, but what's the current reason for flagging? This is surely tech/business news through and through.

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Despite everything he has done Musk still has a number of hardcore followers who excuse every action and attack any criticism.

The comments become unreadable because everyone just argues over musk, so people just flag the whole thing.

Ironically, most of the mentions of Musk in this thread are due to the flagging.

Maybe the flaggers own Tesla stock. HN commenters have admitted TSLA value is based on hype not fundamentals. Negative titles are bad for hype.

But these stories are still reaching the front page, so arguably the flaggers are up against the algorithm and the algorithm is winning.

If you follow Tesla for any length of time, you'll find so many disingenuous slanted articles about the company and the cars that you'll begin to wonder what the hell is going on.

This article is about "testing" conducted by a guy who is trying to sell competing software products and has produced videos in the past that weren't replicable and were likely staged. They never release unedited footage or car diagnostic data, just a produced video presented with the intent of damaging Tesla's reputation and boosting their own sales.

This happens all the time, from the New York Times' false claims that their review car ran out of charge, to the most recent Mark Rober video that cost the CEO of a lidar company his job.

The video in this article requires independent validation it is not from a trusted source as it is produced by an extremely biased and financially motivated Tesla competitor.

> This article is about "testing" conducted by a guy who is trying to sell competing software products and [...]

What competing software products?

This is the product. https://www.ghs.com/products/auto_adas.html

The founder went as far as to run for CA senator just to regulate Tesla and bought a Superbowl ad to smear the company. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/dawn-project-tesla-ad-fsd-...

Ah yes, the classic Tesla promoter smear.

Somehow operating systems and software development tools are in direct competition with Tesla ADAS software. Turns out Tesla is not in competition with GM, it is actually in competition with Linux, GCC, and Windows. Amazing.

The smear campaign to silence whistleblowers is still going strong.

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