Also:
Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht didn’t hear boat’s call for help off Alaska coast, spokesperson says
So not better when you’re required to listen for distress channel.
They always face questions, but never consequences…
What about a 10 million dollar fee after they made billions of dollars?
However will they survive?!?
I believe that by international law all vessels have to offer assistance to someone in distress.
You’re correct about this. I was just looking it up myself.
There is indeed international maritime law governing vessels, and they must proceed with all possible haste to distress signals. Unfortunately, there are two problems here as I understand the situation:
- Believe it if you want to or not but - the people operating Zuckerberg’s yacht claim they hadn’t heard or noticed the distress signal at the time
- The Coast Guard - who, importantly, the stranded skiff had initially contacted - didn’t consider their situation to be worthy of “distress” and thus Zuckerberg and his yachtspeople didn’t violate any regulations or laws
Zuckerberg’s yachtfucks apparently said that they noticed the distress signal eventually, but by the time they had, the Coast Guard had already arranged assistance for the skiff.
So, sadly, for those of us who want to see the billionaires get their comeuppances, I don’t think we’ll see it here.
Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer.
The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.
Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not onboard at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.
So, basically, it starts to look like they have standing orders to be selfish and anti-social to point of pushing up against maritime law.
Why wouldn’t they? The investigatory agency for this is the USCG, and last I recall, the man in charge of Homeland Security and the rest of the US is pretty comfy with doing favors for his billionaire friends.
In Victorian times fiction like Jules Verne’s novels and the like, rich yachtsmen saving the day is kind of a trope. What I’m trying to say is that the previous iteration of super rich fucks had some kind of heroic idea of themselves, some kind of noblesse oblige. These cunts are just cunts.
For some cases, actual noblesse were also the government and they lived among the people. They also took pride in the family image because it was political capital. It surely wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t as bad as the US and their glorified cupidity.
Probably the past ones are just fiction as well. Probably they always ignored pleas for help. But they paid for writers to say differently. Or just lied about it.
You’re right. And our ruling class can probably point out to the absolute amount of money they spend on their foundations of choice to say they are even more charitable than the Victorians. Ugh.
Ah yes, the generation of super rich fucks who were happy to have children mangled in the machinery of their textile factories had “noblesse oblige.”
had some kind of heroic idea of themselves
The reply? Because I didn’t want the poors on my yacht.
He is a disgusting parasite PoS – also an acceptable answer.
They declined because he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Simple enough when you approach all his actions from this point of view they become predictable.
Sink more yachts.
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Like what kind of fucking trash do you have to be? It’s a floating luxury palace, I’m sure it has a helicopter aboard it. He’s in no rush, all the money in the world, and with the opportunity comes up to be a good person, he not only refused to help once, but repeatedly.
The captain should be stripped of their license and he should be unable to own or operate a boat within American waters. Better yet, make him pay 250 million to park it in a US harbor, and spring it on him with the boat has no choice but to dock and refuel in the US.
“but what if they get their poorness all over my boat!?”
Seize the yacht for a couple of months and then charge the dock fee.
Because basic human decency have no ROI for them, duh.
Yuckerburg change his story today and said that they didn’t hear it. I read it in another article people from another boat not sure which one were booing them so they must have known ?
His yacht has a dingy as you can see at the stern.
$5 says there were kids on his boat
I’ll rescind this when the impartial 3rd party investigation says otherwise
Exactly. The people running the government in the surveillance state shouldn’t get the presumption of innocence.
They are public figures and not only that they have all of the resources to provide proof of any claims that they make.
Probably for the same reason people ignore a beggar in the street.
damn so much for my plans of using a distress signal to get close to him for non-nefarious reasons.
