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Resurfaced comments in which new House Speaker Mike Johnson talked about how he and his son monitor each other's online activity using "accountability software" have raised questions about national security.

Johnson, a Republican who was first elected to Congress in 2016, spoke in 2022 about how he installed software called Covenant Eyes on his devices during a panel called "War on Technology" at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana, Rolling Stone reported.

According to a clip first posted on X, formerly Twitter, by a user called Receipt Maven, Johnson spoke about how the subscription-based service helps people abstain from internet porn and "objectionable" websites.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine their next father and son talk..."So dad, what was it about that scene that emptied your balls?"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

National insecurity concerns

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What happens when this is addressed and the software is removed? Unadulterated porn mayhem. I’m excited to see it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Then all the gay porn will leap out at them and test their faith, can't have that!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

more details about this snoop and snitch service via a write-up from last year by wired:
https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unbelievably creepy.

Fortify, for instance, ... tracks how often an individual masturbates in order to help them overcome “sexual compulsivity.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Let's join the UK again - no more encryption and make protests are illegal. Also, same as China, Russia, Malaysia. W.T.F.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Imagine living an existence where you can't jerk it to whatever you want.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

generic fix for internet safety. at the house anyway. kid was blowing my cap on torrents. has different filters torrent/games/porn/malware, free. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wonder what their privacy policy looks like...

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