@Avram in MD,
“You do not “need” a smartphone in the same sense that you need food”
Incorrect I need it for my parnsa and wouldn’t have food without it. Its also pretty much a necessity in the modern world. I get that many jews live without it. I respect them for that. But relaize that its a little like telling someone you do not need electricty because you can live like the amish. Society is kind of past that. Go outside the frum world and you’ll see just how much people use it. But I am not here to debate this issue so much.
” If you purchase a problematic device, then it’s up to you to make it safer.”
Umm I am not yet convinced that I need a filter to keep it safer. I can use childlocks etc. You are telling me from a religious point of view that i need one. OK but then offer it for free because I am just not such a deep believer in the cause. Unless you don’t care about getting us less believers to filter.
Re “They kvetch, but they still buy eggs” yes but when not sold on the idea of TAG they won’t buy a filter. And no I am not unque in the idea of just not wanting to pay for things. I hear that in the street and all over. Free is free no matter how lavish i live.
Yes I feel resentment when an organization thats a tzedaka and here to help the klal charges . You got it. Mnay can afford bikur cholim and don’t need their free meals in hopsitals. But its off put to charge us even if I can afford it. And guess what I swipe my card when i take a nice hot meal from them. Id do the same for TAG too. But don’t charge me.
Same with your excuse that time is money. Cmon you are a tazdaka . Thats what tzedka does. You give free time to others. I do that as a chesed too. Otherwise what makes you a “tzeadka” that I should donate to? (To be cheap on one time $20?)
Bottom line, I have a hunch you work for TAG. But it all boils down to the same thing. I and many resent the fact that you charge. We aren’t sold that all filters are needed. We think you are out to get our money when you nickle and dime (like charging $20 for two minutes of work to block texts on a flip phone). We think its a chutzpah to call yourslef a “non profit” when all you do is charge us money. Its not just me who feel this way. Its many many more than you think. All your argumets boil down to this idea that you are not obligated to give free things and why should you differ than a for profit business? But they all ignore the basic idea that its just “klein kepadik”, small minded. Its 2024 and there is so much money for everything. You can easily afford to provide free filters to all even via 3rd party vendors that by now you own or are well connected with. Its doable in 2024. This isn’t 1970. And Many just will never have respect for a “non profit” that nickles and dimes. (As I noted you’d be able fund raise alot more if you just gave it all for free).