Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media (nypost.com)
from isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 03:08
https://lemmy.ca/post/22641724

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natecox@programming.dev on 06 Jun 03:49 next collapse

Tribespeople became so addicted that Marubo leaders, fearing that history and culture — which is passed down orally — could be lost forever, they have now limited access to the internet for two hours each morning, five hours each evening, and all day Sunday.

That is still so much internet, we would probably all be healthier following that guideline.

rockSlayer@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 04:27 next collapse

I hope it inspires them to document their oral traditions in some way on the Internet. Most likely it would be a blog, but video documentation would be invaluable preservation

Instigate@aussie.zone on 07 Jun 04:57 collapse

I would love for more of this work to be done in my country too - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have so much lore, history and knowledge that we’ve been losing with each passing generation due to the ongoing effects of colonialism. I agree that video is the most appropriate way to preserve oral traditions and knowledge, and that we should be creating massive publicly-accessible databases to store and view them.

Doom@ttrpg.network on 07 Jun 02:55 collapse

Someone should get them to write a blog before capitalists figure that out

cm0002@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 03:52 next collapse

fearing that history and culture — which is passed down orally — could be lost forever

Or they could just…write it down…on the internet…where many others around the world would also be able to learn about their history and culture.

Also many of the elders literally echo what western elders have been saying about the young generation for a hundred years lmao

agressivelyPassive@feddit.de on 06 Jun 04:04 collapse

If you wouldn’t be such a reader and instead memorized things like God intended, you’d know, that this sentiment existed for at least 2000 years:

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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veeesix@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 04:49 next collapse

Well now I’m calling my children cross-legged goblin tyrants in public.

magikmw@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 15:56 next collapse

Modernity ruining children for millenia!

DinosaurSr@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 02:27 collapse

I agree with your point, but I’m not sure if that is a real quote from Socrates: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/?amp=1

skeezix@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 04:09 next collapse

Hot shamen medicine women in your area!

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 06 Jun 12:13 collapse

Have you ever seen an Amazonian shaman who wasn’t a man tho?

synae@lemmy.sdf.org on 06 Jun 23:37 collapse

That’s why we need the shawomen and the shachildren too

Suoko@feddit.it on 06 Jun 04:16 next collapse

Sometimes it works better like in this case instead : www.tiktok.com/@cunhaporanga_oficial

davel@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 04:20 next collapse

The New York Post in c/technology, or really anywhere but c/nottheonion?

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 04:22 collapse

I debated posting there, I think I’ll crosspost

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 06:45 next collapse

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

Shots fired

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 …

TIL

“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.

Well there were also bad parts to the story besides the ass eating

cordlesslamp@lemmy.today on 06 Jun 16:40 next collapse

Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to give them the internet?

cm0002@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 17:44 next collapse

They’re a Human tribe who has not decided against interacting with the wider world, so they have as much as a right to access the Internet as anyone else

BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee on 07 Jun 06:46 collapse

No idea. Haven’t they learned that undereducated people don’t deserve the internet? Just look at north america.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Jun 02:39 next collapse

well ill be ben affleck was right

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml on 07 Jun 07:32 next collapse

I just want to say that there’s a lot of blame to go around for this, but it’s not the fault of porn.

realitista@lemm.ee on 07 Jun 07:59 next collapse

No one could have possibly seen this outcome!

thorbot@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 09:04 next collapse

So now they are just like everyone else

obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Jun 09:27 collapse

The Gods Must Be Crazy!