Everyone recognizes that the ban on television in the Torah community has been, and is, succesful. Sure, you have the odd-man out that still has a TV in his home r’l. But he is the odd-man out. He sticks out. He is a small minority (in the Chareidi community.) Yeshivos filter these families out. And have been doing so for many decades already. Everyone knows TV is very bad.
You also know it wasn’t always like this. In the 50’s, 60’s and even part of the 70’s it wasn’t uncommon at all to have a TV in a Chareidi home. It didn’t change over night. People thought TV ain’t so bad. The rabbis are overreacting. Yet b’H they persisted. Rabbonim fought television tooth-and-nail. They had rabbinical conferences. There was the famous Kol Koreh signed by rabbonim across the spectrum banning (yes, banning) televisions. Yeshivas cracked down on families with TV’s. Today, b’H, we can say it was a very successful initiative.
That is where unfiltered internet in frum homes is headed. IY”H it will be almost eradicated. Its defenders will have the same standing in the community as anyone who dared try to give a speech in a Chareidi shul defending having a TV in a Jewish home.
It is unthinkable.