Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Proof positive that the internet is here to stay in the Charedi world

Every week on Tuesday, Yated Neeman (in Hebrew) is distributed for free. I always find it a fascinating read, especially the ads/kol korehs, letters and op eds. Lately, every week they publish an anti internet piece on the front page and this week was no exception. However, what is fascinating is that many of the letters that people are writing now have email addresses for responses. This week, there was a letter from someone promoting a phone line where you can call and hear the "Gedolim" talk about how bad the internet is etc. What was absolutely astonishing was that in the letter the writer asked that anyone who had new material (e.g recordings) should EMAIL them to him. Of course he wrote in parentheses that he has kosher internet, but that is besides the point. The irony is unbelievable, an anti internet crusader was using the internet to get material. There were other letters as well which provided email addresses for feedback. It is clear that even in the real/conservative Charedi world email (and by extension the internet) is becoming an indispensable tool.

4 comments:

Avi said...

In many minds, "the Internet" is the (World Wide) Web. Now I bet most of those email addresses were probably for gmail, hotmail or yahoo, which brings the hypocrisy right back up to 100%.

bluke said...

As you suspected, they were mostly gmail addresses

joshwaxman said...

one can use gmail via POP3, thus avoiding the web...

Mighty Garnel Ironheart said...

And how about all the people who went to the infamous Asifah and recorded it on their smartphones?