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DY: “Any information which is muttar to relate l’toeles is subject to change. You’ve just done away with the heter of toeles.
That’s what you seem to be trying to do here the whole time, actually.”
No, I’m not doing away with the heter of toeles.
Regarding toeles, my point was that:
1. The fact that there is a toeles doesn’t automatically make something muttar. There may be certain necessary conditions. For example, in some cases, something is only muttar l’toeles if the person specifically asked you or if you know it’s something important for them (that comes up in the halachos of l”h for shidduchim).
Therefore: 2. Even if you ask a sheilah and you are told that it is muttar to give the information to this specific person because whatever necessary conditions are in place, it is impossible that all of those conditions apply to every single person in the world so it would still be assur to post it online.
You had originally written this: “Why wouldn’t it be l’toeles for everyone reading it?”
You seemed to be saying that just like it could be muttar to tell one person, it could be muttar to tell the whole world online. And I was saying that that doesn’t follow.