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.

  • donuts
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    381 year ago

    So God is a supernatural, omniscient, all-seeing entity that can speak directly into your mind, but you still need to pay a company $20/month to snoop on your devices for “accountability” so that you don’t look at all that very tempting gay porn on the internet.

    Ok…

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      91 year ago

      Ah yes, makes total sense. Similarly… The universe stretches to unfathomable distances, countless trillions of stars, and the god of all this … somehow cares whether you jack off to porn or not. Riiiiight.

      • @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        Actually, no.

        The universe stretches to unfathomable distances, countless trillions of stars, and the god of all this … somehow cares about you at all.

        This would be like you caring about an ant. I’m not talking about ants in general. I’m talking about you caring about one specific ant, located in one specific anthill, in a cabin in the middle of the woods. In Russia. To the point where you’ve written an entire book on how that ant should be living its life.

      • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Look, God created Mike Johnson in their own image, and that image is a man who has a healthy obsession with girthy, throbbing cocks. Sometimes more than one. Usually more than one.