Satellite internet service’s antennas are everywhere, from illegal mining sites to isolated Indigenous villages
. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from its metal skids into the caiman-inhabited waters below.mining dredge, caught red-handed as it drilled into the riverbed, pulverising it in search of gold.
As recently as two years ago, few in the backlands of the Amazon – where high-speed internet has long been an unthinkable luxury – had heard of Starlink or, the rocket company that is Starlink’s parent and has sent more than 6,000 low-orbit satellites into space to beam down signals to secluded spots such as this.
about Starlink’s Amazon revolution for his series Expresso Futuro. He was astonished at the technology’s rapid spread as he journeyed up the Negro River towards the border with Colombia, surfing the internet as he went. “A company like Starlink might right now know more about the Amazon and the occupation of the Amazon by human activity than the Brazilian government actually does.”Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters
Brazil is far from the only country where such anxieties are being voiced about overdependence on Musk.
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