A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk—only to get hooked on porn. Brazil’s 2,000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder’s recent Starlink service, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time. The Marubo are a chaste tribe, who even frown upon kissing in public.
Village elders say 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. But a Brazilian activist who works with indigenous tribes was instrumental in helping connect the Marubo to the Internet—she believes anxieties about the Internet are inflated, and asserts that most tribespeople “wanted and deserved” access to the World Wide Web.
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