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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.
by direwolf20 9mo ago
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.
- ChrisGreenHeur 9mo agoWould they normally do witchcraft if they did not have those rules?
- anonymous908213 9mo agoWe 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.
- nxobject 9mo agoTikTok, sadly, is the best hypnotic spell ever made.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThe US fucked it a couple of days ago, maybe it isn't any more.
- vajrabum 9mo agoI suspect they'll just replace the old recommendations with new ones.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThey 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.
- sejje 9mo agoWait, is it witchcraft to use a machine created by witchcraft? Forever?
- micromacrofoot 9mo agoat the very least, it's acceptance and support of witchcraft which has at times been plenty to justify execution
- peterlk 9mo agoMy 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.
- ashleyn 9mo agoCurious what the rules were.
- escapecharacter 9mo agoThis is a EULA I'd love to read.
- direwolf20 9mo agoprobably mostly "stay well away from people and stay away from these areas"
- coredog64 9mo agoPNG 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.
- ComputerGuru 9mo ago[flagged]
- snowwrestler 9mo agoI vouched for this comment, which got flagged dead. It’s got an accusatory tone, which is not great. But it also has accurate substance. It’s true that westerners visiting nations like PNG for work are often cloistered behind elaborate security. This is in part because the organization has legal responsibility for sending those workers, and the deterrent security measures are way less expensive than the legal and PR headache of an incident. In addition, well-funded and highly organized foreign businesses attract local ire in ways that random individuals do not. In any one of those countries at any given time there are also foreigners passing through on travel or less organized work (e.g. academia) who experience the country without that thick security layer… and are perfectly fine.
- direwolf20 9mo agoMay be because they have less money. Almost any westerner is much richer than the locals, so makes a good target in a way that most South Americans do not.
- Tuna-Fish 9mo agoThis is true of a lot of foreign countries where people somewhat exaggerate the security issues, but really isn't of PNG. It's the kind of place where it's not just the foreigners who need a thick security layer to travel, there are plenty of places in the country where no official government representatives could safely travel to without basically bringing the army.
- paganel 9mo ago> a wireless relay network through the jungle in Can you blame them? I personally can't.