Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts.
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Going from "having no internet" to "doing international lawsuits" is quite a journey
Neolib capitalism speedrun
I mean, international lawsuits existed long before the internet but I read you.
They probably got a lot of emails from lawyers drumming up a case
I would say that porn is less damaging than social media at this point.
I'm having a harder and harder time telling them apart.
I'm having a harder and harder time
What social media are you on?
I think it was on a podcast or something, but someone somewhere once said that people/aliens in the future might look back on our civilisation and assume so much about us from social media bots. They might think that we go around greeting each other going "Link in bio" like Vulcans say "Live long and prosper".
Even if they used it for porn right after they got it, who cares? Does it provide other benefits? Then it DOESN’T MATTER.
It wouldn’t matter if the whole tribe only got internet to goon. Good for them. They can do what they want
who cares
The one elder quoted in the original NYT article does. Which is why it was reported. The NYT article wasn't salacious but once TMZ got 'hold of it, well.
Wasn't there a standard before that got superseded or derogated by some other new law basically allowing this... you can lie with no consequences in your articles and news? and I'm talking about the US back in the 90's I believe
That wasn't even true? More evidence that the panic about porn addiction is a psyop.
They seem to be adapting to modern society pretty well.
Silly gooners
While I knew since last year the the story was fake (and I had random people mention it to me on online games when they learned I was Brazilian), I'm also skeptical that this story alone was all it needed to kill that guy's company.
Am I surprised by either porn or NYT here? No
But I am amazed how NYT is fine using real facts when they want to put some random group in a grey spot light at best. Something about that coverage is off, can't quite put my finger on it tho.
Bu when they cover israel, all of sudden facts are not relevant. This is the same NYT is that downplayed USSR caused famines in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, got a pulizer for it too lol
How is the news paper of record this consistently on "the wrong side of history" ?
By picking the "wrong side of history" every time. It's pretty easy to tell the sides.
Did you read the article? NYT didn't do shit wrong.
Not to mention that plan and engagement of the NYT story is purely based on writers and potential readers relating to such fact, behave as if it is something worth of mentioning in a story in the first place borders hypocrisy... they forgot their first time got access to unlimited internet
in truth they are nostly illegal loggers.
fuck musk.
I wonder if Musk will be saying anything about it.
Take the internet back.