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.
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.”