Category — Internet Ban

Agudath Israel, an umbrella group servicing the charedi world in its entirety, appears to be eying its own ban on the Internet, thereby ratifying and extending the ban into the Left-Wing Ultra-Orthodox world, which does not take orders from Lakewood. If so, it will be interesting if the details of the ban are the same, or if the ban is in any way less strict.

But it should be no shock to anyone that the main concern is openly not porn, not even heresy, but rather, the challenge to authority of “daas Torah� by bloggers.

As Rabbi Zwiebel told the Yated,

“Due to a variety of factors, the authority of daas Torah has been significantly undermined, even within our own chareidi circles. Most troubling has been the proliferation of Internet ‘blogs’ where misguided individuals feel free to spread every bit of rechilus and loshon hora about rabbonim and roshei yeshiva, all with the intended effect of undermining any semblance of Torah authority in our community.â€?

Hat Tip: Failed Messiah