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A previous employer deployed a wireless relay network through the jungle in PNG and had rules to obey to avoid being accused of witchcraft and burned.

>>direwo+(OP)
Would they normally do witchcraft if they did not have those rules?

>>ChrisG+32
We all do witchcraft on a daily basis. I am manipulating light on a sub-microscopic scale to beam words into your retina from across the world. They are right to be distrustful of our ways.

>>direwo+(OP)
My dad has some stories of working in Burkina Faso (and Mali, and other countries) with a drone, and having to appease locals about his witch-bird. A lot if places in Africa still prosecute witchcraft.

>>direwo+(OP)
Curious what the rules were.

>>ashley+M7
This is a EULA I'd love to read.

>>direwo+(OP)
PNG is so violent that you don't even have to be accused of witchcraft to have something bad happen to you.

I worked at an NGO in the region and made several duty travel trips to PNG. The office building I was working in had a platoon of security guards and metal detectors in the lobbies of every floor. A local employee kept an M-16 and ammunition locked in the server room. We had to have security escorts to travel anywhere outside of downtown Port Moresby. Coworkers shared stories of being carjacked like you or I might relate losing a phone.

>>anonym+o3
Wait, is it witchcraft to use a machine created by witchcraft?

Forever?

>>anonym+o3
TikTok, sadly, is the best hypnotic spell ever made.

>>sejje+va
at the very least, it's acceptance and support of witchcraft which has at times been plenty to justify execution

>>coredo+X9
I spent a lot of time working in Brazil between 2004-2015 and in the first five years or so of that, it was very similar to what you describe (though not the onsite weaponry in offices). Most expats lived in secure walled compounds and execs usually used bulletproof transportation. And this was in Sao Paulo state, not even an out of the way part of the country.

>>nxobje+Da
The US fucked it a couple of days ago, maybe it isn't any more.

>>ashley+M7
probably mostly "stay well away from people and stay away from these areas"

>>direwo+Gh
I suspect they'll just replace the old recommendations with new ones.

>>vajrab+qy
They did, but they fucked it so hard it might actually lose users. They made it so dang obvious. They show you an error message if you send the word Epstein to someone in a private message. Even China's apps know they need to silently delete the censored message to avoid alerting the user.

I heard people are switching to an Australian clone app called Upscrolled? The same way people switched to rednote for a while until tiktok was unbanned the first time.

>>direwo+(OP)
> a wireless relay network through the jungle in

Can you blame them? I personally can't.