UPDATE, June 12th: The failing New York Times would like us to know that the tribe is not actually hooked on porn, just that some members of the tribe are hooked on porn, and that we're all a bunch of meanies for noticing this might be a problem ... or something.
I bet nobody saw this coming from a mile away.
Yes, if you give a remote Amazon tribe the internet, they'll eventually come across social media and porn. And once they come across social media and porn, they'll inevitably become addicted to it. Once they become addicted to it, they'll grow lazy and dumb, and they'll become more sexually aggressive.
We could learn something here, Western man.
Update: Here is the New York Post summary that The Times accuses of being sensational:
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 2000-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.'
"Learning the ways of the white people."
They really think being addicted to porn and social media are the "ways of the white people."
(We should be ashamed of ourselves, because they're not wrong.)
About 11% of US males are addicted to porn, and that's just the ones who admit it. Not to mention those of us who are addicted to social media and our phones in general.
So when Elon Musk gives the internet to a remote Amazon tribe in order to try to help them, and then they go and get addicted to porn and social media in the process, we can see how much damage the internet is capable of.
Here is the original Times report regarding concerns about pronography:
After only nine months with Starlink, the Marubo are already grappling with the same challenges that have racked American households for years: teenagers glued to phones; group chats full of gossip; addictive social networks; online strangers; violent video games; scams; misinformation; and minors watching pornography.
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Alfredo Marubo, leader of a Marubo association of villages, has emerged as the tribe's most vocal critic of the internet. The Marubo pass down their history and culture orally, and he worries that knowledge will be lost. 'Everyone is so connected that sometimes they don't even talk to their own family,' he said.
He is most unsettled by the pornography. He said young men were sharing explicit videos in group chats, a stunning development for a culture that frowns on kissing in public. 'We're worried young people are going to want to try it,' he said of the graphic sex depicted in the videos. He said some leaders had told him they had already observed more aggressive sexual behavior from young men.
They're worried young people are going to want to try the kinky sex acts they see in porn? If this tribe isn't careful, before they know it they'll have an entire month devoted to pride in deviant sex acts!
Here's some footage of the Marubo and their new technology:
Boy, this just seems so eerily similar to the way our culture has changed since, say, the early nineties. I think it's time to set some limitations of our own, similar to the ones the Marubo leaders set out for their people.
Who knew the internet could be made into such evil.
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