In the last few days, a map of Tesla owners in the United States has been circulating. The goal is clear: to increase vandal actions against the Tesla to expand protests against Elon Musk. Similar cases have also been recorded in Italy.
The site Dogequest He had a short life. The March 17thvery talked about on 18 and then on March 19 he began to work intermittently. A little was visible, a little no. Now it seems closed but it could always return. The platform was very simple: there was one United States mapfull of icons: sometimes there was the symbol of Tesla, other times that of the doge dog. Once on the map the cursor was transformed into a Molotov.
Behind each icon there were the Personal data of the owners of a Tesla. As NBC News reconstructed, the people on the map were not all the owners in the United States but only one small part. In any case, many data corresponded, others did not. The goal was clear. A I invite not even too veiled To extend the protest events against Elon Musk on a wider level.
What was the map of Tesla owners for
We also saw it in Milan. In recent weeks the Tesla have become the symbol of a Protest against Elon Muskthe CEO that guides the company and holds the 13% of its actions. The point of protests is not so much Tesla but what Elon Musk has become since he supported Donald Trump’s race on the White House. And the protests are having an effect, given the collapse of sales and the title on the stock exchange.
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He supported the Germans of AFD, he performed in a Roman greeting during the rally, published Singing phrases On the people who are facing a gender transition path, on the great genocides of the 1900s or on several other themes. And this without counting the controversies followed by his choices since he took the Doge guidethe Department for Government Efficiency Created by Donald Trump especially for him.
The problem of doxxing
What anyone who is behind us is doing Dogequest It has a fairly precise name: it’s called Doxxing And in computer jargon it is a practice that involves collecting private information on individuals based on what you can find on the net. In this case it is not clear if the doxxing stopped a public information Or has arrived in other types of archives.
However, the problem is not only this. Tesla owners They are not necessarily supporters of Elon Muskso much so that an informal anti Elon Tesla Club was born and on the net there is a discreet variety of adhesives type: “I bought this Tesla before Elon became crazy”.
