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Ben Levi: Of course it’s not good to have unfiltered access to the internet in your house. If you’re going to have the internet it should be in a public part of the house, where anyone can walk in at any time and preferably it should be filtered. I don’t think anyone is going to argue with that and we’ve been hearing this almost ad nauseum.
What you say about drinking that it “may cause damage or may not.” is ridiculous. Anyone who is not drunk on purim has witnessed numerous examples of damage caused by people in the name of mesorah. The chillul Hashem caused by kids getting drunk and having to go to the hospital, getting arrested, causing damage to people or property is enormous. The physical danger and possibility for chillul Hashem is reason enough to speak out against it. The reason people are more outspoken about drinking than about the internet is probably because the drinking is public and everyone sees it where as the internet problems are private and not seen by everyone.