I thought California legally guaranteed public access to all coastlines
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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That’s correct.
However in this case this asshole is next to a bit of coastline that you can only get to by crossing his property. On land, by sea you’re free to land there.
It was available for decades until he bought the property and closed off that bit of land to the public. Effectively gaining his own private beach.
He’s been fighting against the state for years. Apparently citizens wanting access to public property are now “commies” to this asshole…
Someone should open up a ferry business taking people to that beach.
This twat has been at this for so fucking long now. What a chump
It's very hard to undo an easement, like if there was a path to the beach there that anyone could use and now he wants to close the path. Sorry, he loses, that's how laws work. It's the one salvation we have in this capitalist hellscape.
This POS likes to just.... block it anyways... it isn't legal, but he's worth $6 billion, and it's only enforced by a small fine IIRC. And when the penalty for breaking a law is a fine, it's only illegal if you're poor.
In Colombia, private ownership of the beach is just straight-up illegal. It works pretty well, as far as I can tell.
Oregon too, I believe
It is in California too. But rich people like Khosla try to get around that by blocking access to beaches, ostensibly making the private.
It is in California too, the problem here afaik is enforcement. Get rich enough and getting fined just doesn't matter, and the state either can't or won't escalate.
Of course this dude bought Twitter Blue.
People like him are self centered wastes of oxygen.
It would be nice if CA passed a "right to roam" law that allowed one to cross any private land
The whole country needs it IMO, unfortunately only publicly-owned land with that as a designated use is the equivalent; there is no non-owned land in America, only public, private, or private-but-abandoned-and-about-to-be-repossessed. I agree that private property as "this is all mine even if it looks like an empty plain and if you so much as hover above this imaginary line you're a criminal" is an awful way to run a society
Beach access must be a fucking human right! Beaches must remain public property and public property must be accessible by the public. It must not be that billionaires claim such a unique item like beaches all for themselves. That's entirely unacceptable and as immoral as it gets.
I paste this link about once a week lately. Our society and fundamental rights have been chopped up and sold off to "billionaires" (oligarchs and mercantilists) for hundreds of years, and they spend about one sentence on it in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
What an asshole this guy is. He's above the law?!