Here is how I disagree with the critics of my post. All of us here are hediyotos who cannot hand down psaks or make up dinim. But some of us turn statements that really are daas Torah into topics for hair splitting: how did he say it? who was with him on the stage when he said it? was it a psak or just a piece of advice? can I get around it by asking my rov? can I ignore it because I’m Sefardi (RZ, Chassidic, fill in the blank)? It seems like a reflexive pattern. In the debate over sefirah, for example, the ikar has become how to determine exactly what is and isn’t music. Remembering talmidei Rabbi Akiva is drowned out in the static. Here too the fact is that no rov, and kal vachomer no Gadol, wishes to see yidden going anywhere on the internet, filtered or not.
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