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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50 points

Does he so desperately want to look at porn that he needs this? How about will power?

Who the fuck are these people.

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I cannot imagine being so pathetic that I need a subscription to help me not watch porn. But even if I were, how hard is it to just set up parental security password, and ask someone else to set it for you so you don’t know what the password is. What a moron.

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7 points

Imagine thinking “porn addiction” is a real thing and not something Jordan Peterson made up to sell transphobia to incels

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2 points

It’s not an addiction, it’s min-maxing value! Times are tough!

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I’m sure it is a real thing, literally everything can become an addiction if you consistently feed the wrong patterns to your brain.

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10 points

I suspect it’s more about virtue signaling. It’s not that he needs people to keep him from watching porn. He needs people to know that he’s not watching porn.

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2 points

Id bet hes got a financial stake in it, or at least is scratching someones back who does.

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Basic training circa '96, and I get outed as an atheist. Heard exactly this from more than one person.

It is really scary thinking how many people are held in check by the thin veil of mythology.

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Penn Jillette said it best. Paraphrasing: “I rape and kill and murder everyone I want to, and that number is zero. Why the fuck isn’t your number zero???”

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Actual psychopaths.

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6 points

sounds like a publicity stunt gone wrong

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