zahavasdad- the stories you are talking about have nothing to do with the inyan here. I never heard of the stories you are quoting and no one was discussing those stories. No one mentioned any specific quotes from the Gedolim. What was being discussed was the fact that the Gedolim have said that Internet use should be limited and therefore someone started a thread in the Coffee Room talking about how he wants to follow the words of the Gedolim and limit his Internet use. Many posters agreed and were encouraging each other.
Then someone else got on attacking the Gedolim for being against Internet use as well as the posters in the Coffee Room for trying to live up to the words of the Gedolim. Then some other posters decided to join him in his attacks on the Gedolim.
Again, no one had brought any specific quotes from the Gedolim, and the issue being discussed was not whether or not the Gedolim were being quoted correctly.
The issue was that some people felt that they have a right to attack what the Gedolim say (they themselves were claiming that the Gedolim said these things – they weren’t arguing that the Gedolim did not really say these things).