[avaldes]

I'm sorry but is this a template response? This kind of situation is a bureaucratic mess spanning an awful lot of jurisdictions. What "your representative" can possibly do to help abandoned crewmen on a ship in a forgotten port in whatever place in the world when the ships operator is a chain of shell companies to the point that's virtually impossible to pinpoint a single entity to blame. It has to be a better way.

[Swenrekcah]

Sure, it's not an easy way. But basically I can think of four things to do:

1. Complain on the internet. This is easy but utterly ineffectual.

2. Alter your buying behavior. Unless you are the purchasing director for a multinational conglomerate, also utterly ineffectual.

3. Do something stupid like trying to blow up a containership. Also ineffectual, will land you in jail and will almost certainly kill some innocent people.

4. Contact your local representatives and get them to do soemthing about it. This will be easier if you are part of a larger group. Then your group and your representative(s) can contact someone higher up and so on.

Yes this particular problem and many others relating to ship operations thrives because there is little direct control and everyone is from 20 different jurisdictions, but perhaps some of those jurisdictions can team up and tax those that don't follow their rules or whatever. I am not an expert in this but some people are and the most I can do is let my representatives know that I care about this stuff. Maybe I actually should go and do that.

[m463]

there's also the news media.

(although I have noticed something unfortunate: I have a LOT of 5-star documentaries to watch, but rarely do, while I watch even 2-star scifi stuff almost immediately)

[whatshisface]

I have noticed that a lot of the documentaries going up on streaming platforms these days are uncritically rehashing the past year's news in some kind of overt propaganda repetition.

[Swenrekcah]

Which also does nothing unless combined with method 4.