“Our stereotypes of #Indigenous #Amazonian peoples is still very much that they’re living in the forest without #technology…that’s not entirely accurate.”
“The #Marubo people loved #Orkut when they initially got online,” Ruedas said, referring to #socialnetwork launched in Brazil in the early 2000s and shut down by Google in 2014. “Then when Orkut died they all migrated to Facebook, and I’ve been connected with Marubo people on Facebook for many years.”
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Remote tribe gets hooked on internet porn
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/04/hooked-porn-remote-brazilian-tribe-internet-musk/
“Teenagers in a remote #Brazilian tribe have become hooked on #pornography months after they were given high-speed #internet access via Elon #Musk’s #Starlink.”
“[The indigenous #Marubo] tribe members have become “lazy”, reclining in hammocks all day glued to their #phones”
”In the village, if you don’t #hunt, #fish and #plant, you don’t #eat”