As a person that hates billionaires and the current economic situation, but also has an understanding of maritime rules and some of the finer details of this story, I think you should rewrite your headline. They were outside of a harbor in Alaska and there was no distress call. If you want to build something, please don’t base it on lies because that just weakens the foundation of what could be something we have coming.
Mark Zuckerberg leaves stranded boat passengers to die in middle of the Pacific.
Submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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SisyphusIsHappy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I appreciate you bringing facts to Lemmy.
Can I still root for people to sink that yacht?
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Root for the whales
razen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tanjs for letting know the actual story, fueling hate throught fake information isnt something anyone will like
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hot take: Since I’ve seen this article posted a ton lately…
Facts:
- Zuck wasn’t on board
- They were on a different radio channel than the distress call
- By the time they switched to the same radio channel, another vessel was already helping
- The distressed vessel was not in imminent danger, just without power
Be pissed at Zuck for all the right reasons. This isn’t one of them. The captain was just doing his job.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They were on a different radio channel than the distress call
There is a particular frequency that distress calls go out on, you are required by maritime law to always be tuned into that channel. So to claim that you are innocent because you weren’t tuned to the channel is like claiming that police didn’t respond to a 999 call because the operator was using the line to talk to their friends. They are still basically admitting to breaking the law.
By the time they switched to the same radio channel, another vessel was already helping
Should they were not tuned into a illegally mandated frequency for a good while then. They still have questions to answer.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeh, channel 16 is the emergency channel, but you don’t have to have your radio tuned to it 24/7. You can change channels if you want to speak privately to another boat or if you’re coming into dock. It’s not completely infeasible that they were talking on another channel and only switched back once the danger had passed.
sockinacock@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Did they call out on 16? The article I read implied (but admittedly didn’t outright state) they didn’t make a distress call and just called for general assistance, and they called the Coast Guard on 22A, then the Coast Guard issued an assistance request for them on . Which would mean that Zuck’s crew didn’t do anything illegal and was just skuzzy, as should be expected of anything connected to him. Still means they were either lying about/poorly keeping watch on 16 as the Coast Guard should have broadcast on it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have you ever sailed before?
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You want to tell me there is one small radio with single channel on the billion dollar worth yacht.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not defending Zuck the Cuck, but just how many multi channel radios do you think they need to have? And how do you monitor and manage all those radios as a single crewmember on duty on the bridge ? Does an entity like the Coast Guard bear any responsibility to listen to the emergency channel and know how to contact the nearest ship/boat?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bootlicker. Captains job is to follow maritime law and listen out for and aid those in distress.
lando55@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Be pissed at Zuck for all the right reasons
His hair and face.
ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is that what they’re saying. If they’re claiming that then it’s incompetence, which I’d love for that yacht, a crew captained by incompetence. (Spoiler: it’s not)
There are certain frequencies you broadcast for help on, those channels are always open. They heard the distress calls, life or death you help. Negligence plain and simple.
schwifty_squanch@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Billionaires are literally defective humans. They all belong in mental asylums.
BillyB0nes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Literally had an opportunity to be batman and can’t even take the free W. Defective is correct term.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why is this an image instead of a link?
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Because OP just turboposts crap from reddit
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is not what happened.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Just because they didn’t die (someone else rescued them) doesn’t mean he didn’t “leave them to die.” Do you have evidence he knew the other ship would arrive in time? The duty of the nearest vessel to help a vessel in distress has been part of the Law of the Sea since the beginning.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The boat was just off the harbour, and ran out of fuel. It made non-emergency requests for assistance. Vessels were not obliged to render assistance.
“Leaving them to die” is hysterical and hyperbolic, and a gross distortion of the facts. If you feel you have to go there, you’re implying even you don’t believe in your premise.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are different levels of help request and this wasn’t the “oh shit we’re dying” request.
So yeah…
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
Not a joke but what is the law of the sea?
What happens if you break it?
Sea jail?
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whar would you have him do? Help the poor? In THIS economy?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
He wasn’t even on board, he clearly left instructions to his crew to never allow a poor on board
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Oh, no, the billionaire cunt who’s known for being a cunt and mocking the trust of his user base has done a complete cunt thing! So unexpected.
God, even after coming out as villains, billionaires suck ass.
Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No he didn’t. He wasn’t even there. This isn’t a real thing.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mark is a self-admitted asshole. The fact that he doesn’t care about how movies depicted his initial real life rise to fame and knowing how teenagers are harmed by social media shows he doesn’t care. A
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why on earth would a piece of shit like him stop to help anyone if there’s not a few billion dollars in it for him?
This is a non-story. It would be news if he DID help them.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Bootstraps don’t work at sea??? How would he know?
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wow I’m surprised a billionaire ignored someone in desperate need.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
an android robot has little concern for organic lifeform.
ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 months ago
“Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not onboard at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.”
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would you expect more from a billionare?
You dont get billions ethically.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Oops! My guess is that he had some tweens on that boat and would have found himself in a compromising position if he intervened. His bros assaulted the tweens while he recorded it all through his “man glasses”. /s
oyzmo@piefed.social 2 months ago
Most humans are defective. He profits on you, on exploiting children, on child abuse ads, and now this. BUT we still indirectly support him, cheer him on, give him money - why? Because we are lazy, Facebook is practical and we don’t bother to change anything.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same vibe as that fuck Joel Osteen refusing to allow people to shelter during a hurricane. These people care for no one but themselves and their money.
EAT. THE. FUCKING. RICH.
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Starvin here, what time’s dinner?
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We would need some type of big knife to cut the heads off, maybe a slanted blade falling in a track of some kind.