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ZD, I don’t really get your point. Because we do have a printing press, and because it isn’t banned, does it mean you should go to the store and buy non kosher magazines? We can rationalize it by saying, the printing press isn’t banned, so it must be okay.

Of course the best thing to do is not involve ourselves with Loshon Harah, Nivel Peh, etc. etc. But it’s easier said than done. So the way to get to the ultimate level, is by slowly making your boundary’s bigger and bigger.

With so many things, there are good and bad. The internet for example, has many, many good things. There are many shiurim you can download. You can do chesed. BUT, the bad definitely outweighs the good by far.

Is it easy to say one day, “I won’t use the internet anymore at all for any purpose!”? Of course not! That would be pretty hard to do! So the solution is to add a filter, then make it strong and stronger, and hopefully to just block everything.