Technology is good. Its a construct.
The web/tv/media can't be held responsible for disseminating information just like nuclear energy cant be held responsible for how humans use it.

I learnt the mantra as a child although I was not meant to.
Had I known back then, that I wasn't meant to, would I still learn it?
I think yes. Human curiosity. The need to know what is not known.
We all have it.

I did some research about this mantra a while back (on the web). Most of what I read was that it was now "ok" to use it. There was one reluctant guru who said something like "ok, you really shouldn't, but use it wisely at the right time,place etc".

There's this behavioral aspect to asians (and I think this goes beyond India), where they try to please everybody, all the time. Hindus love it when someone takes their religion seriously, and they'll go out of their way to make it look like their religion is "modern" in some way and all-encompassing and at-par with anything the west can produce. Perhaps an inner inferiority complex that they're trying hard to get rid of.
(Dont know why this is, but if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I'm open to debate it.)

So, i think it is this behavioral aspect thats at the root of why it is "ok" to cross the line now. This might not totally be a bad thing for the religion as such, given that the religion wasn't initially designed to expand and recruit, and so, changing with time is what keeps it alive.

Anyway, a lot of what I post is just me trying to see where I stand on a subject, what I think of it, and what I make of it.
A lot of what I read is opportunity for me to either refine my stance or rethink it, change it, even switch to a better understanding.