MP,
Since Adam Harishon, we’ve had a yetzer horah, and that isn’t changing. We have to deal in that reality.
Rav Mattisyahu Salomon has said on many occasions that the internet is not evil, just a nisayon. You appear to have been misled into thinking that there’s a campaign to call the internet evil. There isn’t. There’s a campaign to educate (in some cases, in very forceful ways), that it’s potentially dangerous, and must be treated as such. But it’s not about calling it evil, just a very powerful tool i the hands of the yetzer horah.
On e comment of yours really puzzles me. You write, “It’s only a nisayon if you make it out to be one. But it doesn’t have to be one.” What does that mean? It is one! Can someone decide that yichud “doesn’t have to be” a nisayon and therefore ignore those halachos? HKB”H wired us a certain way, and demands of us that we deal with that reality, not in a world of ideals.
The Gemara says, “???? ?? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???, ?????? ???”? ?????, ???? ???? ??”, that without Hashem’s help, we are unable to overcome the yetzer hora. The “confidence” you speak about is misplaced. One can only be confident that he can overcome the yetzer hora if he has Hashem’s help. How can one expect Hashem’s help when he doesn’t follow His guidelines?!
My next post, also copied from the Kinus Brochure, will highlight the aspect of the need for yiras shomayim.