Is there any reason not to believe this is just a hoax? I am immediately skeptical I see reported only on Threads (or FB, IG, Twitter, Bluesky, etc) and not corroborated.
Would they really put "comply with cease & desist to reactivate" on the screen?
It's on brand for rappers to do stuff to get publicity though.
Another argument for it being legit is that he has to know that they'd send advance warning and that it would be a combo of certified and email (to get a quicker result). I've been pursued legally and there were email/physical copies.
This is not the first time Tesla has done it, either. Before the 3 was released, a customer found some references to it in their software and made some posts.
Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.
They'll also release misleading telemetry data at press conferences to throw you under the bus. In one fatal accident, on the topic of AP/FSD, at a press conference: "Well, we do the right thing, and vehicle telemetry tells us that the car was warning the driver to pay attention before the accident".
When the NTSB report came out, it was found that there had been one attention warning issued, and it was eighteen minutes before the collision.
No, that's specious reasoning. OP points out the possibility this is not even real. Do you have any indication that any of this is true? That should be your first step. However, you're somehow arguing that hypotheticals serve as any kind of justification, and a potentially made-up scenario is worth anything.
It should be provably, technically impossible to do this - or at the very least, there should be heavy penalties (say, 10-20% of annual revenue) for doing this without proper judicial ruling. A company should only be able to afford 1 or 2 errors like this.
Are you free just because your master happens to like you and let you do what you want? Obviously not, since he could change his mind at any time.
Have you seen photos of those "do you have criminal thoughts?" posters on London streets. That is art to highlight an issue.
To be fair Such art would not be rapper style)
Also making repossessions easier and safer is nothing to sneeze at.