Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns

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Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns
newsweek.com

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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I grew up in the far right evangelical Christian church and watching people's horror when they hear little tidbits about how fucked up it is always entertaining to me. I know a bunch of people who use the same software on their computers.

Is it usually at the wives' insistance?

For married men that usually seems to be the case. For anyone else its usually at the insistence of their men's group.

Creeps all around, yikes. I get the idea but damn is there no way to make this any less a ticking time bomb in every instance

Edit: or, like, condos?