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Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media
New York Post ^ | June 4, 2024 | Andrew Court

Posted on 06/05/2024 9:36:35 AM PDT by billorites

A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk — only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain.

Brazil’s 2,000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder’s Starlink service nine months ago, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time.

“When it arrived, everyone was happy,” Tsainama Marubo, 73, told The New York Times.

“But now, things have gotten worse. Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet, they’re learning the ways of the white people.”

The Marubo are a chaste tribe, who even frown upon kissing in public — but Alfredo Marubo (all Marubo use the same last name) said he is anxious that the arrival of the service, which delivers super-fast internet to far-flung corners of the planet and has been billed as a game-changer by Musk, could upend standards of decorum.

Alfredo said many young Marubo men have been sharing porn videos in group chats and he has already observed more “aggressive sexual behavior” in some of them.

“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” he said of the kinky sex acts they’ve suddenly been exposed to on screen.

“Everyone is so connected that sometimes they don’t even talk to their own family.”

Starlink works by connecting antennas to 6,000 low-orbiting satellites.

The necessary antennas were donated to the tribe by American entrepreneur Allyson Reneau.

Initially, the internet was heralded as a positive for the remote tribe who were able to quickly contact authorities for help with emergencies, including potentially deadly snake bites.

“It’s already saved lives,” Enoque Marubo, 40, stated.

It has also opened up a world of possibilities for young

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KEYWORDS: allysonreneau; amazon; elonmusk; ituiriver; marubotribe; spacex; starlink; tesla; theamazon
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No apparent objections from the HOA.

1 posted on 06/05/2024 9:36:35 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

I thought this was a Babylon Bee article from the headline.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 9:38:16 AM PDT by suasponte137
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To: billorites

It’s gotten worse here, too. It just happened more gradually so nobody noticed.


3 posted on 06/05/2024 9:38:51 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: billorites

Wait until they discover the cat videos on youtube. Famine on the way.


4 posted on 06/05/2024 9:39:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: suasponte137
I thought this was a Babylon Bee article from the headline.

#MeToo! The Bee stings even when it doesn't.

5 posted on 06/05/2024 9:40:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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To: billorites

(A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet)

Now they can order stuff ... from Amazon.


6 posted on 06/05/2024 9:42:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: billorites

Porn and social media. Of course. LOL!


7 posted on 06/05/2024 9:44:00 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RoosterRedux
Wait until they discover the cat videos...


8 posted on 06/05/2024 9:44:20 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: suasponte137

It’s a fine line, innit.

The Bee, Mel Brooks, Monty Python..?


9 posted on 06/05/2024 9:45:05 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: billorites

Every Eden must have its serpent..................


10 posted on 06/05/2024 9:45:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SaveFerris

🙄......................


11 posted on 06/05/2024 9:45:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SaveFerris

Is that like selling ice to Eskimos?


12 posted on 06/05/2024 9:46:45 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

“”It’s gotten worse here, too. It just happened more gradually so nobody noticed.””

Hope they never get smart phones down there - they’ll really be in trouble. Yes, the internet has good but also a lot of “bad”. I’m surprised they have the equipment to access the internet; electricity? I think the cell phones are a bigger menace to society - stage a violent event, film it, post it - IMMEDIATE recognition...

Saw some footage this a.m., of illegals crossing the border - with phones. I know the phones may be provided to them but who pays for the service - who gets the bill?


13 posted on 06/05/2024 9:47:50 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Red Badger
Every Eden must have its serpent..........


14 posted on 06/05/2024 9:48:22 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: billorites

Sounds like they’ll be Marubing one out pretty often from now on.


15 posted on 06/05/2024 9:51:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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LOL


16 posted on 06/05/2024 9:52:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: suasponte137

I struggle to believe that it’s not.


17 posted on 06/05/2024 9:56:48 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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noticing a LOT of ethnic people videos (usually from asian folks) of ‘struggling young single mothers’ who must do everything to care for her children- while supposedly avoiding criminal men who seem to be everywhere, and attack without abandon even though a camera is catching it all lol-

It’s all fake- every day there is a new ‘life threatening disaster’ that the woman needs to solve or escape from-

I looked it up, and its estimated that all these ‘young single vulnerable young mothers’ in the videos are getting abotu $1000 or so a month if they can get the clicks- a lot of the previews show their young child being eaten by a huge snake, or dangling off a cliff, or the woman beign attacked by men etc-

pure theater-


18 posted on 06/05/2024 9:57:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: billorites
And just like that -- Richard Dreyfuss has the premise for a new movie.


19 posted on 06/05/2024 9:57:58 AM PDT by x
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To: Thank You Rush

There’s a wonderful movie about people in remote places all over the world watching the Soccer World Cup. In the Sahara they ride a bus, with people hanging off the roof to the only place within hundreds of miles to hook up their tiny black and white TV. I Mongolia they travel on horse back to a Russian guard house. In the Amazon primitive natives sneak through the judge to watch it at an Argentinian guardhouse where the electricity is run by a guy on a bicycle running the generator. Cool movie.


20 posted on 06/05/2024 10:02:43 AM PDT by Mercat
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