Does visiting the websites of the people of desires on the internet carry the same ruling as sitting with the people of desires and attending their gatherings?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does visiting the websites of the people of desires on the internet, which incite against the rulers or disparage the scholars of the Sunnah, carry the same ruling as sitting with the people of desires and attending their gatherings?

Answer:
This is more severe, more severe than sitting with the people of desires. Because here people are brought who wear the garb of knowledge. They wear the garb of knowledge and experience. And they are asked questions and they answer. So the people are deceived by such-and-such a scholar, such-and-such a Shaykh.
As for the gatherings, they contain ignorant people and common people, so they are less dangerous than the internet and the satellite channels, because for the satellite channels, the people of misguidance and deviation are selected, wearing the garb of knowledge and the name of religion, so they mislead the people. Yes. And where do the satellite channels come from? Where are they issued from? They are issued from the disbelievers, from our enemies?
Do you think the disbelievers would answer scholars of truth in them? If they were issued from among the Muslims and the Muslims selected from their scholars for them, there would be good in them. Yes.