“It’s interesting that those with a filter think it was a huge success and those without a filter or who have read the coverage from unfiltered sources believe it was unsuccessful,”
Hmmmm. I have filters installed, pre asifa. I’m not sure how successful or unsuccessful the asifa was since I don’t know what the objective of the organizers was and if it was met, but I can say that on a personal level I was disappointed and inspired at the same time. Disappointed because due to language barrier I didn’t understand a lot of what was being said and what I did understand was not something new to me. On the other hand being together with 40000 yidden, davening and saying tehillim with them is by itself a positive experience and a good mussar shmooze to boot is always a good thing. As for the filters. I don’t find them to be limiting my knowledge in any way. I don’t feel like I’m living under some brutal regime that is surpressing me in any way. I view the filter as a matter of common sense to help keep certain things off my screen. In no way does it impede the things I must do online.