@avram in MD
In 2025 living without internet devices is akin to being Amish. Is electricity a “necessity”? I see the Amish live fine without it. But this is so the normal and such an added enhancement that it’s currently a necessity.
More over, at the end of the day TAG calls themselves a tzedaka. My rov collects for them and they even make a Shabbos TAG. The underlying understanding is that are out to get people to filter devices. What they say or write to cover themselves is Symantics.
Let me just say one more thing. My wife often says about tznuis asifas, that the women who come are already the more ehrlich tznuis women. It never attracts the huge growing crowd of people who really need to hear their message. It really does very little to actually enhance tznuis if you don’t attract that crowd. (Especially that many of the younger generation copy them) it’s a feel good thing but its impact is minimal. The same is with TAG. The ehrlich ones already know that anything that has internet connection needs a filter. You need to
go after the growing crowd who buys flat screens to watch Netflix because after all it’s not TV which is trief. I can list 25 more things, but you get the idea. That’s who you need to get. It’s a growing trend and not getting smaller. The way you get them is via free filters or you won’t win them.
My key point still remains that I expect more from a charity and that it’s small minded not to do their full job to the end which should include free filters for all with a highly suggested donation of $20 a month .