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I have a filter on my phone, laptop, & desktop. It costs me a few hundred dollars a year, it slows my internet down a bit, & it’s annoying to need to request access to a perfectly legitimate site. It’s still worth every dollar I pay & all the annoyance it causes. It spares me from viewing tens of thousands of inappropriate images & text that would poison my mind! The tradeoff is so worth it that I wouldn’t even consider having a device without a good filter.
I ask you, dear fellow Yid, why shouldn’t you also have the benefits of filtered internet? Why not give it a trial for Chodesh Tishrei this new year & see if it’s worth it for you? You might be pleasantly surprised by the benefits of having a pure mind again.google and AI are trainable. If you don’t look for inappropriate material, then when you do search for appropriate material, inappropriate stuff will not come up (especially, if you have filter on in google search – put that on if you did not do it yet).
what if i occasionally need youtube for work, fixing my car or other stuff?
Some people are so devoted to Torah and ruchnius that when they have to for some reason or another use the internet, they just go on to check their email or buy that item on Amazon (its not like their going to spend a half hour to choose which item is the best one) for 5 minutes from buying to paying page or to simply do some research which means they already have their search plans and then get off the internet SO THERE’S NO NEED FOR SUCH A TALMID CHACHAM BUYING ONLINE to need a filter. He has his own filter gates preventing him from seeing anything he shouldn’t be seeing by anything that EVEN TRIES to pop up not involving his Amazon buying or research etc…. to immediately X and delete the pop up page without even looking at it. He has no interest in it anyways and never asked for that pop up page.
If you be on that high level then you have no need for a filter.
Seichal is the best and only filter needed!
I’m kidding, but I’ve heard those words from someone. Apparently, his kids weren’t as smart as he was, unfortunately.
You are correct. Filters are needed. As careful as a person might be things happen without them realizing, and one thing leads to another. Part of showing Hashem how serious we are is by doing as much hishtadlus as we can. This is hishtadlus! Irrefutable hishtadlus!
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