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.
Imagine living an existence where you can’t jerk it to whatever you want.
I get what you’re saying but there’s quite a lot of illegal stuff you really shouldn’t jerk to.
I don’t want to jerk it to those things, but I also get what you’re saying.
Mmmm, is there illegal stuff you shouldn’t jerk to? Who gets to decide, where does this “shouldn’t” word come into it? Who says you shouldn’t? Why does someone else’s uptight puritanical fears get to limit what I look at or jerk off to? “should” or “shouldn’t” never seem to come with explanations as to why.
Because they’re straight-up illegal and harmful to people. I’m talking CSAM, Necrophilia, and stuff like that.
I have no issue with anything if there’s no real people or all the people included are consenting, but there’s lines that shouldn’t be crossed.
Well I have to go along with you on that - necrophilia? BLECH. CSAM, if it really shows abuse, absolutely I’m against it. I’m a horror fan and once had a copy of a magazine mailed to me, I literally had to go in with scissors and remove the photos (from an underground movie) of necrophilic abuse of a corpse - that’s just beyond the pall of what I’m willing to look at.
So yes obviously there are lines that I personally would never cross. But just because something is illegal doesn’t mean I automatically agree it’s always wrong for everyone. Like gambling, which is illegal here in Utah. But I do go to Wendover and gamble, so does most of our population here. And they’re not ending up addicted to it, or losing all their money, or doing anything but having a good time.
So when people say “you shouldn’t gamble,” I want to say, “that’s my decision to make, not yours.”