{"id":184323,"date":"2021-05-10T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=184323"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:03:48","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-pick-up-600-more-acres-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-pick-up-600-more-acres-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pick Up 600 More Acres in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Zuckerberg first started buying land in Hawaii in 2014. Google<\/p><\/div>\n

1 May 2021 – <\/em>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is again expanding his palatial Hawaiian property \u2014 and he\u2019s not getting many likes.<\/p>\n

The Big Tech billionaire and wife Priscilla Chan snatched up 600 additional acres on the island of Kauai \u2014 and an existing online petition demanding that Zuckerberg stop \u201ccolonizing\u201d the Aloha State is now well over 1 million signatures as of Saturday.<\/p>\n

The pair purchased the land for $53 million from the local nonprofit Waioli Corp., according to Pacific Business News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The couple now owns more than 1,300 acres on Kauai, known as the \u201cGarden Island\u201d for its extensive tropical rainforests. They began assembling their fiefdom in 2014 with the 357-acre Kahuaina Plantation.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the social-media lord filed suit against native Hawaiians owning tiny parcels around his land to force them to sell their lots so he could \u201cenhance\u201d his privacy.<\/p>\n

So-called \u201ckuleana land\u201d is ancestral to native Hawaiians.<\/p>\n

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A view of the Na Pali Coast, Kauai in Hawaii.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThis is the face of neocolonialism,\u201d University of Hawaii law professor Kapua Sproat told the Guardian at the time. \u201cEven though a forced sale may not physically displace people, it\u2019s the last nail in the coffin of separating us from the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg eventually dropped the lawsuits, but was accused in 2019 of pressing ahead through a local resident suing on his behalf.<\/p>\n

The online petition, with 1,014,219 signatures, says, \u201cMark Zuckerberg is the sixth richest man in the world \u2026 and he is suing Native Hawaiians in Kauai for their land so he can build a mansion. He\u2019s building a mansion to do what? Live in Kauai for two months out of the year? This is inhuman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Maxwell wrote on the change.org petition<\/a>, \u201cZuckerberg is another lowlife with zero respect for others and shows his greed and selfishness openly. He should be kicked off Kauai.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Change.org call is looking to fight against Mark Zukerberg from buying more land in Hawaii. Change.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cZuck is a cuck,\u201d wrote signer Charles Becker.\u00a0\u201cHow dare he??? Money doesn\u2019t give you the right to displace native people from the land they have inhabited since time immemorial!\u201d\u00a0petitioner\u00a0Stella Baucom\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

Details on the notoriously private Zuckerberg\u2019s house are sparse. It is set \u00a0far back from publicly accessible areas, with a controversial walled perimeter. According to building permits that total $83 million, one application called for a 57,059-square-foot home with eight bedrooms, nine full baths, and 16 half baths.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan hold over 1,300 acres on Kauai. Jeff Chiu, File\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n

The seller, Waioli Corp., traces its roots back to the Wilcox family, descended from missionaries. It manages \u201cnumerous historic sites and collections around the island,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

The couple said they are \u201cmindful\u201d of the nonprofit organization\u2019s preservation work.<\/p>\n

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Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg tried to several hundred Hawaiians who owned property near his. Ron Kosen\/photospectrumkauai.com via AP, Fi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Waioli president Sam Pratt said the nonprofit decided to sell the land \u201cafter much consideration,\u201d according to sfgate.com<\/a>. \u201cThe decision provides Waioli with the financial ability to be able to continue our critical conservation and historical work,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that this land will remain in their trusted hands and that Mark and Priscilla will act as responsible stewards of Lepeuli today and in the future,\u201d Pratt said, referring to an area also known as Larsen\u2019s Beach.<\/p>\n

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1 May 2021 – An existing online petition demanding that Zuckerberg stop \u201ccolonizing\u201d the Aloha State is now well over 1 million signatures as of today. The couple now owns more than 1,300 acres on Kauai. In 2017, the social-media lord filed suit against native Hawaiians owning tiny parcels around his land to force them to sell their lots so he could \u201cenhance\u201d his privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":184325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[232,1309,487,866,2502,1213],"class_list":["post-184323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","tag-capitalism","tag-hawaii","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-super-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284889,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184323\/revisions\/284889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}