gawker… I hear what you are taining, however internet is not so simple like some of the other things that you mentioned. True there is Yetzer Hara involved in all the challenges that we have to pick through to run our lives and anyone can fall if not trying to prevent it. But internet has so many extra dangers to it that even the most heilige Yid can succumb to!
Especially because it’s a private thing. If you go to a store… people will see if you buy not tznius clothing. If you go swimming, it’s a matter of interaction, you’d get a really bad shem if you went mixed. But when it comes to internet, you can be so frum and everyone sees you as so frum, yet its all in privacy of you your self and the internet (and Hashem of course… but it’s easy to forget that!)
I know myself, I have no agenda to get involved in Tumah of the internet out there. And yet advertisements come in your face, or little things that are not so bad may start off yet it can turn to alot worse.
Al Taamin be’atzmecha AD YOM MOSCHA!! I have shocked myself at some things that I have permitted myself to be exposed to or involved with over the internet (No I am not talking about bad things. But yes I mean things I would be dead embarrassed if others knew me to have any shaiches to.)
It starts with a little surfing for XYZ and it has an amazing power of distraction as we ALL can testify to!