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An article about the ultra-Orthodox in Israel who, among other things, have *kosher phones*
Well, it's their choice to restrict their lives, can't criticize them for that, however odd I find it.
But what's interesting is the segue about the "kosher" web browser.
"If your kid puts 'banana' into Google, some of the first sites he'll get are porn," explains Chairman Moshe Weiss. "Put banana into Google on Rimon, and you get all the same sites without the porn."
You know, I've heard this argument about diapers as well, and, just to check, I went over to google and put in "banana".
Well, I have no filters on my Google, and my default is to show 100 results per page, and on that first page - no porn. None at all. Not any. If I were looking for porn, I'd be sorely disappointed right now.
Of course, I was searching in English. I suppose it's possible that your average Israeli on the street is just a lot more depraved than I am...?
But what's interesting is the segue about the "kosher" web browser.
"If your kid puts 'banana' into Google, some of the first sites he'll get are porn," explains Chairman Moshe Weiss. "Put banana into Google on Rimon, and you get all the same sites without the porn."
You know, I've heard this argument about diapers as well, and, just to check, I went over to google and put in "banana".
Well, I have no filters on my Google, and my default is to show 100 results per page, and on that first page - no porn. None at all. Not any. If I were looking for porn, I'd be sorely disappointed right now.
Of course, I was searching in English. I suppose it's possible that your average Israeli on the street is just a lot more depraved than I am...?
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(with that being said, I still think he was explicitly looking for an innocuous-sounding keyword that led to a porn site.)
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Though you still have to intentionally do that with safe-search off, right?
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If I set it to the highest setting it indeed filters TEH SECKS out. Hmmmm, I see a market gap! Introductory Internet courses for Orthodox Jews :P
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The whole thing left me rather bemused - it seemed like sticking to the letter of the law while violating the spirit. It seemed to me as if they were saying that the inconvenience the law creates is large enough to justify breaking it, but then, why not go the whole hog and do it openly rather than indirectly?
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2. Uh... maybe? I'm not Jewish, please explain?
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Let's see...
My mother is half Belgian, half Russianish. Her father grew up in Boston, her mother is from Belgium. My mother grew up all over NYC
My dad is from Texas. His family has been in the South since before the Revolution.
I grew up in NYC. Spent the years between 3-10 in Bensonhurst (very Italian neighborhood - when I was a kid, our neighbors on either side spoke Italian in the home), then moved to Staten Island where everytime I meet somebody they comment that they're from Brooklyn. Where? Bensonhurst! Inevitably. Or sometimes Bay Ridge.
But "improving the world" sounds like a wonderful catch-all ethical obligation, and yes, I suspect that isolating yourself is probably not helping you accomplish that goal very well.
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(with that being said, I still think he was explicitly looking for an innocuous-sounding keyword that led to a porn site.)
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Though you still have to intentionally do that with safe-search off, right?
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If I set it to the highest setting it indeed filters TEH SECKS out. Hmmmm, I see a market gap! Introductory Internet courses for Orthodox Jews :P
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The whole thing left me rather bemused - it seemed like sticking to the letter of the law while violating the spirit. It seemed to me as if they were saying that the inconvenience the law creates is large enough to justify breaking it, but then, why not go the whole hog and do it openly rather than indirectly?
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2. Uh... maybe? I'm not Jewish, please explain?
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Let's see...
My mother is half Belgian, half Russianish. Her father grew up in Boston, her mother is from Belgium. My mother grew up all over NYC
My dad is from Texas. His family has been in the South since before the Revolution.
I grew up in NYC. Spent the years between 3-10 in Bensonhurst (very Italian neighborhood - when I was a kid, our neighbors on either side spoke Italian in the home), then moved to Staten Island where everytime I meet somebody they comment that they're from Brooklyn. Where? Bensonhurst! Inevitably. Or sometimes Bay Ridge.
But "improving the world" sounds like a wonderful catch-all ethical obligation, and yes, I suspect that isolating yourself is probably not helping you accomplish that goal very well.