Q&A: Using the Internet Without a Filter
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Using the Internet Without a Filter
Question
Is there a halakhic prohibition against using the internet without a filter when the user is not certain that he will not sin in the future by searching for and viewing forbidden material, and his use of the internet is mainly for study and business, and he has no way to access the information he needs for those purposes without the internet?
Answer
It is permitted, but why not use a filter? Not a Haredi filter, of course. A filter that blocks forbidden content and not on an ideological basis.