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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg broadens Kauai land ownership
Honolulu Star Advertiser ^ | May 1 ,2021 | Andrew Gomes

Posted on 05/01/2021 4:06:22 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

Facebook’s billionaire CEO and his wife have nearly doubled their land holdings on Kauai with a recent purchase of 597 acres stretching from the mountains to the sea.

A company owned by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently bought the tract of agricultural and conservation land for $53 million from Waioli Corp., a nonprofit established by descendents of historic Kauai sugar plantation firm Grove Farm, started by the Wilcox family.

The land borders roughly 700 acres Zuckerberg and Chan bought around 2015 for about $100 million to establish a secluded estate in an effort that later angered numerous Native Hawaiian families and other residents when Zuckerberg had lawsuits filed a year later to force the owners of several small parcels within the larger property to sell their land at auction.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: facebook; hawaii; kauai; zuckerberg
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To: MinorityRepublican

Facebook is not a monopoly. You free to start a competing social sharing site tomorrow. It is not governments job to control the market.


21 posted on 05/01/2021 4:54:00 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: LeoWindhorse

I’m betting a steak dinner that this year the Hawaiian tribalists will burn Zuck out. And I’m also betting that his “woke” security team will run away and leave Zuck to be roasted at a kālua.


22 posted on 05/01/2021 5:00:57 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: sergeantdave

From your keyboard to the tribal leaders.


23 posted on 05/01/2021 5:08:24 PM PDT by BipolarBob (RIP Howard Beale, the countries last honest TV commentator.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I have seen the exactly spot he bought about 15 years ago

I recall he had to adjust the boundaries of his original land purchase so the natives could keep a sacred cemetery unmolested.

They're still not happy...

24 posted on 05/01/2021 5:13:53 PM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: sergeantdave

I kind of think that would be good to see.


25 posted on 05/01/2021 5:18:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative.)
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To: dynachrome

It’s good to be the king.


26 posted on 05/01/2021 5:21:58 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: LeoWindhorse

Leftist islands deserve the little libtard censor dweeb. Have fun.


27 posted on 05/01/2021 5:22:22 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: Steven Scharf

That is wonderful, until you get squished like a bug by big tech and the rest of the communist/borg.


28 posted on 05/01/2021 5:25:54 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: phormer phrog phlyer; Steven Scharf

^ what he said.


29 posted on 05/01/2021 5:29:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: McGavin999
He is a disgusting pig. Forcing natives to sell so he can have privacy while making billions invading and stealing ours!

The "Natives" he is forcing to sell are the descendants of the haoli missionaries and planters who...um, "Acquired" the land from the native Hawaiians.

They came a hundred and twenty years ago and some of them intermarried with the locals but Zuckerberg is no different than their grandparents.

30 posted on 05/01/2021 5:43:13 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: LeoWindhorse

People tend to get upset when you force people from their land. Hiring lawyers to do it is a good way to get your ass killed.


31 posted on 05/01/2021 5:55:00 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: BipolarBob

I think you mean fewer conceptions.


32 posted on 05/01/2021 5:56:25 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I assume his long term plan is to buy the whole island, then declare it the independent Kingdom of Zuck to create his socialist utopia.


33 posted on 05/01/2021 6:05:04 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: LeoWindhorse

Wait...I thought the oceans were rising? Why are all these libs buying ocean front property??


34 posted on 05/01/2021 6:20:55 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: airborne

I thought there was a volcano in Iceland that was making land?


35 posted on 05/01/2021 6:22:59 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

As far as I know none of the lava has gone into the sea yet, just making new mountains, basically.


36 posted on 05/01/2021 6:25:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steven Scharf

Your a fool to support monopolies.

Especially one with deep government ties to NSA


37 posted on 05/01/2021 6:25:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“how do you break up amazon?”

Forcing them to spin off AWS would be a pretty good start.

L


38 posted on 05/01/2021 6:27:23 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: BipolarBob; BenLurkin

The vaccines will ensure fewer contraception s so the population will decrease on its own - thereby saving Mother Earth. Leaving more for the Globalist Elites.


Well, we know they most likely haven’t had the experimental jabs.


39 posted on 05/01/2021 6:27:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Bill Gates is acquiring big patches of farm land, too.
Seems all evil masterminds own large fortified estates, guarded by mercenary minions.

40 posted on 05/01/2021 7:05:08 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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