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the Lubavitcher Rebbe



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Rabbi Nosson Scherman



8 Mar 2010

The internet - a source of communication or lack thereof

Three articles about the internet this morning. The first declares the access to the internet a human right. The second is a bizarre article about how a baby lost her life due to her parents preoccupation raising a child online. And the third is about the Haredi concerns of using the internet.

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
..."The right to communicate cannot be ignored," Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), told BBC News.
"The internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8548190.stm

Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.
The couple fed their 3-month-old daughter once a day between marathon stretches in a local Internet cafe, where they were raising a virtual child in the fantasy role-playing game Prius Online, police told local reporters Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/south.korea.baby.dead/index.html?hpt=T2

Haredi concerns about the dangers of Internet would be shared by most parents if they had not thrown in the towel on guiding their children.
Read full article entitled Haredim declare war on the Internet by Jonathan Rosenblum.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=170189

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