{"id":128914,"date":"2015-11-21T06:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/the-pervasive-temptations-and-freedoms-of-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:30:24","slug":"the-pervasive-temptations-and-freedoms-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/the-pervasive-temptations-and-freedoms-of-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pervasive Temptations (and Freedoms) of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating look here at Hasidic Jews and their increasingly futile attempts to tightly control Internet usage amongst their community. Balancing the need to do business with the desire to keep outside influences and corruption and the like away from their people is proving to be impossible.<\/p>\n

How are you going to keep them down on the shtetl<\/i> …?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nUltra-orthodox Jews are using WhatsApp to defy their rabbis’ internet ban<\/a><\/span>
\nLike most people, Moshe spends a lot of his time messaging friends on his smartphone. Unlike most people, he can’t openly talk about it. <\/p>\n

As a Hasidic Jew living in Brooklyn, Moshe’s online…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating look here at Hasidic Jews and their increasingly futile attempts to tightly control Internet usage amongst their community. Balancing the need to do business with the desire to keep outside influences and corruption and the like away from their people is proving to be impossible. How are you going to keep them down … Continue reading “The Pervasive Temptations (and Freedoms) of the Internet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,110,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-religious-zanies","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2427,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/attack_of_the_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":128914,"position":0},"title":"Attack of the Beanies","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jun-02 9:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Saudis are sure it's the Jews in Congress that are leading the attack on US-Saudi relationships. 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