While in the audience of last Sunday's massive haredi anti-Internet gathering in CitiField stadium, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, the English-speaking haredi world's leading maggid (moralizing public speaker; preacher) called for excommunicating bloggers who anonymously criticize rabbis ("Da'as Torah"), and says that rabbis should ban all blog comments and force bloggers and news websites to close down their comments sections.
Originally published at 8:32 pm CDT 5-25-2012
Here's the entire audio of what Krohn said, just in case the video is removed from YouTube:
Rabbi Paysach Krohn CitiField 5-20-2012
[Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]