The billionaire who decides what Americans are allowed to say online reportedly couldn't be bothered to help stranded boaters in Alaska waters — and ordinary Americans should take note of exactly whose welfare this class cares about.

Mark Zuckerberg's 387-foot superyacht, worth a reported $300 million, "repeatedly" declined to assist when a nearby 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau last week, according to the Alaska Beacon. A smaller cruise ship, the UnCruise Adventures vessel Wilderness Legacy, was further away but responded to the Coast Guard's radio call and rescued the stranded crew.

A passenger on that cruise ship, software developer Michael Love, posted on Bluesky that the Wilderness Legacy's captain announced Zuckerberg's yacht had been closer and refused to respond. "There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this," Love wrote.

Zuckerberg's spokesperson Brian Baker pushed back, telling Forbes the Facebook co-founder was not on board the yacht, named Launchpad, at the time. Baker claimed the crew had been operating on a different radio channel and that "the assist was already under way" by the time they reviewed the broadcast.

The Guardian framed the incident as another blow to Zuckerberg's already damaged public image, noting criticism of his "lavish, insular lifestyle" and his courtship of Donald Trump. Forbes led with the spokesperson's denial, headlining that the yacht "did not intentionally ignore" the call — burying the fact that the yacht was closer and still didn't respond until after another ship had already taken action.

Here is the man who built the machine that censors Americans for "harmful content" and "misinformation" — the arbiter of what you can share, what you can see, what counts as dangerous speech — and his crew sat on a $300 million floating palace and couldn't find the right radio channel when real people needed real help. A small cruise ship with actual passengers on board did the work his yacht wouldn't.

A Juneau resident captured the sentiment on Reddit: "I've been having to look at that excessive eyesore parked up in Auke Bay for too long now. Fuck Zuckerberg."

The question isn't whether Zuckerberg was personally on the deck ignoring a radio. The question is why any American should accept moral authority from a class that insulates itself from consequence while policing the speech of everyone else.