DY: The rabbonim are not misinformed. The internet is dangerous (some therefore are totally machmir, but many do allow some access), and most secular entertainment is assur.
Who cares how they and I know it? You know it’s the truth and you’re not fooling anyone if you say it’s mostly fine.
I didn’t say it was mostly fine, but what is your standard for what is inappropriate? And yes, it makes a difference to me what an issur is based on. From what I heard at the asifa, the harshness sounds like it grew out of what people who told rabbonim onky the evils of the Internet. Many frum people have parnassa today whether self-employed or otherwise because of the Internet, and the Internet itself is not evil, it’s what user do with it. As for entertainment, it sure sounded like posters were demonizing all forms of secular entertainment, and I would like to know what that is based on. As I have heard over the years, it’s easy to assur everything, but takes a real talmud chochom to identify a heter. I am not saying any rav will bless watching movies, but a blanket issur really is also questionable. For a person who has a taiva for movies, wouldn’t it be better to allow something harmless than have that person turn to other activities that migth be worse?