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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Far more destructive than a coke bottle in “the gods must be crazy”
Already it is too late for the Marubo people.
They have partaken of the forbidden fruit and are forever changed.
Get software filters. No naked blonde women.
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