Next they will ban YWN. What will be left? As the article referenced in this thread pointed out, there is danger even in the appropriate web sites. Magazines are the same issue. How many Bnei Torah waste time reading Yated and Mishpacha when they could be learning or spending time with their families? But blanket bans will just make things worse. People need outlets. Some people feel the need to know what is going on in the world, that is their outlet and it is in general a Kosher one. But at the same time we need to use seichel and understand that spending too much time with this stuff is not healthy. We also have to realize that not everything written in these magazines and blogs is Torah MiSinai. As R’ Shmuel Kaminetzky said with regards to Internet/texting/smartphone bans, it won’t work for the hamon am, the Rabbonim need to work with it, not against it.
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