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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html
>The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
>Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.
Thank you, Musk, for completing the work of the colonizers. Many pre-Columbian civilizations were destroyed not because Europeans were superior, but because they brought with them diseases from the old world that devastated the native populations. This led to the deaths of elders and the orphaning of children, ultimately facilitating the conquest of their lands and the enslavement of their people. Now, you are introducing a new kind of disease that will destroy their minds and spirits in less than one generation: addiction to the internet.