Rabbis: Cellular internet must be filtered

[IndianaGreen]

There is no difference among tyrants, whether it is the authoritarians in China and the US, or the religious autocrats among any religious group. They all share one thing in common: thought control!

Rabbis: Cellular internet must be filtered

Religious Zionism leaders - including Rabbis Drukman, Stav and Yehoshua Shapira - call upon public not to connect to internet without filtering service. Ynet learns heads of many educational institutions considering making censored format condition for accepting students

Kobi Nahshoni Published: 03.21.10, 15:52 / Israel Jewish Scene

Rabbis and educators in the Religious Zionism movement are calling upon the public not to connect to the internet without a content filter, now even on mobile devices like cellular modems or mobile phones.

"The ease at which one can deteriorate to the edge of the abyss is dangerous," explained one of the rabbis. "Our cultural way of dealing with the issue of internet needs to be at the forefront of our education that we all share."

An agreement was recently reached with Cellcom and Rimon Internet that will allow their internet customers to filter online content through a service offered recently. On the heels of this agreement, two rabbinical notices have been issued that obligate the observant public to choose Cellcom and the filter service.

Among those signed on the notices are prominent rabbis and educators identified with various streams of Religious Zionism, such as Rabbi Haim Drukman, Safed's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Head of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, and Tzohar Chairman Rabbi David Stav.

"We are calling upon the public of all ages absolutely not to surf the internet without a filtering service – not at home, not in the office, not on the laptop, not on the cell phone, and not on the property of the yeshivas and educational institutions and their surroundings," wrote the rabbis.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865552,00.html

In tnis 2009 article, the Jewish Taliban want people to spy on one another, and to report those that don't conform:

Haredim asked to report yeshiva students with internet connection

Jerusalem 'modesty squad' says computers containing 'abominations' found in apartments rented by yeshiva students, calls on capital's residents to 'stand guard'

Kobi Nahshoni Published: 12.08.09, 23:18 / Israel Jewish Scene

Posters displayed throughout ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem are calling on residents to report yeshiva students who own computers and are connected to the internet for fear of "to'eva (abomination)."

The posters are signed by the "Committee for Preserving Our Camp's Purity," one of the so-called "modesty squads" operating in Jerusalem.

Some yeshiva students who cannot find rooms in the overcrowded haredi dormitories in the capital rent their own flats. Rabbis who have forbidden the use of computers are demanding greater supervision over tenants and landlords.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3815962,00.html

All theocratic systems are bad and rotten to the core, and pose a threat to all freedom-loving people.

[friendly_iconoclast]

1. +1 *All* theocracies, no matter how they are founded, eventually become corrupt.

n/t

[Ken Burch]

2. self-delete

n/t.

[Shaktimaan]

3. you lost me...

How is this a theocratic system? This is coming from Rabbis for observant yeshiva students and the like... it isn't the Israeli govt imposing anything upon the general public.

[IndianaGreen]

4. This rabble are trying to turn Jerusalem into a Jewish version of Tehran

Those modesty brigades do not restrict themselves to harassing the religious, but the secular as well.