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s/search and rescue vessels/people smuggling vessels
by hyperdunc 9y ago
s/search and rescue vessels/people smuggling vessels
- Neeek 9y agoSure, assuming Doctors Without Borders is in the people smuggling business now, it is still a seaworthy vessel instead of a makeshift raft, the kind that is responsible for that drowned toddler washing up on European shores which is specifically used as an example of the possible harm that would be in breach of the company's content policy.
- nostromo123 9y agoPicking up people 20 miles off of Libya's coast and bringing them to Italy instead of to the much (!) closer African shore is not exactly "search & rescue". http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-rescue-italy-idUSKBN1962GD http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-rescue-ita...
- Neeek 9y agoIgnoring your apparent political motivation to keep these people out of Europe (which is not really what is being discussed), the fact still stands that without these ships, human people are at greater risk of drowning. As I stated in an earlier post, there are better ways to stop people smuggling than letting the people being smuggled, drown at sea.
- nostromo123 9y agoYes, the better way is to make it clear that trying to illegally enter Europe is useless. If there is no motivation to cross the sea in a rubber dinghy, there will be no drowning people, either. But this is apparently out of the question, for reasons of "humanity".
- Neeek 9y agoI'm not disagreeing with you, but we aren't talking about immigration policy here, we are talking about whether or not Patreon's content policy was violated.
- nostromo123 9y agoI agree, it was only tangentially related due to the Patreon vs Lauren Southern situation.
- hyperdunc 9y agoOne of the reasons North African smugglers put people on makeshift rafts is because they know that NGO vessels will rescue them. The African smugglers and NGOs are in cahoots - effectively making the NGOs smugglers as well.
- Neeek 9y agoDoes that change the fact without the NGO craft, people aboard the raft are at greater risk of drowning? All of this just sounds like justification for allowing people to drown. I'm sure there are better ways to prevent people smugglers than blockading the part of the operation that prevents human deaths.
- meheleventyone 9y agoThe irony is that the boat being used to blockade is the one actually engaging in people smuggling. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/27/anti-migrant-boat-crew-arrested-famagusta-cyprus-people-smuggling https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/27/anti-migrant-b...