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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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Date: 2008-10-08 02:17 am (UTC)2. Uh... maybe? I'm not Jewish, please explain?
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Date: 2008-10-08 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-08 03:25 am (UTC)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.