Interesting Psak: Destroying Someone's iPhone

Rav Yehuda Aryeh Dinner, a community rav and a dayan in Bnei Braq, has issued an interesting psak. Rav Dinner was asked if one sees his friend with a "passul" cellphone, such as an iPhone, can he take it away and dispose of it or break it?
Rav Dinner responded that it is even a mitzva to do so, for by doing so you are saving your friend from gehinnom.
Rav Dinner quoted a gemara that allows one to tear the immodest dress off a woman. Basically the reason to allow this behavior is "kol yisrael areivim zeh lazeh" - all Jews are responsible for each other.
source: Kikar
In the past Rav Dinner has been quoted as saying that a chazzan associated with the Peleg Yerushalmi should be removed from his post and not allowed to lead the services.
A couple of years ago there was a flurry of increasingly extreme halachic announcements like this - iPhone owners being invalid as witnesses, shofar blowers, chazzan, etc. Then it went quiet. I guess there are not enough other issue son the table now so it is making a comeback...
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