What I got out of it was an answer to The Wolf’s question. He mentioned somewhere that he works in an office with a professional IT department and that department doesn’t allow filters on the Internet. We now have an answer for him. He can now demand of his IT department to install a filter in order to conform with his religion. The same way they must let him take off for Shabbos and Yom Tov, they must give him a filter because it is a gezaira by the Gedolei Hador. As Rabbi Wachsman said, “vayihi biyeshurun melech…”. When 40,000 people get together it is an acknowledgment that there is a melech in Klal Yisrael and that melech must be listened to, when that melech makes a gezaira it is binding. It is no longer just a chumra, it is now a chiyuv just like Shabbos and kashrus. He can sue them for discrimination if they don’t comply.
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