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

it costs almost as much as Netflix ($204/year)

LMAO what?! My god, it could not be more obvious that every single anti-porn crusader out there has serious issues with self-control and project it onto the rest of society. And let's not even get into the fact that they have a ridiculously unhealthy understanding of human sexuality.

I'm in the wrong business.

Fun fact: Before starting his weird anti-porn spyware company the CEO of Covenant Eyes, Ronald DeHaas, worked as a geologist for Chevron in the 70s. In fact, he's still helping to destroy the planet by working as a consultant for the petroleum industry. He never actually stopped. So he's always been an unscrupulous P.O.S.

Some Christian men talk about “SSA” (same sex attraction) and their struggle to “resist the temptation”. As a non-repressed straight man, this is not something I’ve ever dealt with. I feel bad that these people are so indoctrinated and intimidated by their weird-ass culture that they can’t just relax and go grab a dick.

That's exactly what it is, a major projection of their own inner sexual turmoil. Whether they are closeted homosexuals or not, and really in the case of Mike Johnson I hope he isn't because I don't want him among us LGBTQ folks, they definitely are projecting some hugely enormous interest in the sex behaviors and genitalia of other dudes. As a gay man - I'm kind of in awe of their penchant for penis worship.

Fear of bigger dicks, I think. The opposite is their obsession with BBCs with white women. Not a psychologist, arm-chair opinion.

The risk does not stop at the line of classification. Comms for example, anyone he texts or is texted to those screens are taken and stored off.

It is a risk to national security, period. It’s a fuckin social engineering jackpot for fucks sake.

If he is following proper protocols and procedures: Yes

If he were following proper protocol, he wouldn't willingly install spyware in the first place.

And unless he is VERY strictly separating his work and his personal devices, there is inevitable leakage. Even something as simple as getting too close to the line on "So I need to fly out to Nevada to check out these weather balloon things and make sure everything is fine" and so forth.

But also? All of this is publicly available information. At a high level, there are two kinds of classified material. Stuff that is classified by specific rules and are generally based on science and technology. And the other is "national security" and is more or less anything a bureaucrat thinks is important.

So the POTUS liking two shots of soy milk in his coffee is not classified because soy milk and coffee are not classified. But if it is decided that "terrorists" might attack the soy milk supply chain? Suddenly there is an argument that that information is sensitive.

And there are a LOT of arguments to be made regarding the Speaker of the House's personal ties and vulnerabilities becoming "sensitive".

And then you have people like trump who just give zero shits and are likely to take a picture of a document so they can show it to other people later.

Right, even if he had access to classified information in an unsecured space, the classified system would have its own encryption device and its own systems separate from the unclassified network.

That's only part of it though. Another component is that anyone having access to his personal devices --let alone his porn habits-- potentially has compromising information on him. Once he's compromised, he's a national security threat, full stop.

What if he's having an affair and there's evidence of it on his phone? What if he's doing other shady shit that involves not having a bank account? You better believe the Russians and/or the CCP would love to have compromat on the Speaker.

Yeah, god forbid the hot gayness leap out at unsuspecting homophobes! Better get some STRONG software to keep it at bay, instead of just, you know, just NOT BROWSING PORN SITES

A lot of gay porn, like much straight porn, is really hot. I'm gay but some straight porn I've seen is really incredible. No one will ever convince me that enjoying people having sexual pleasure together is wrong, bad, indecent, immoral, or grotesque (unless it involves watching trump or mike johnson engage in it - which would be my definition of gross indecency).

“Lord grant me strength…dammit Lord your strength is not enough!! What I really need is an ever present entity that I pay a monthly tithe to, constantly watching over me, judging my every move!! Surely there’s somebody out there better at this than you, Lord!”

So does Mike’s Johnson

I think Mike Johnson should be forced into a chair with his eyelids clamped open ala Clockwork Orange and have to watch orangutans having gay sex mixed with scenes of apocalyptic nuclear mushroom clouds and teenagers jerking the wooden pole while making lemonade at Hot Dog on a Stick.

So do I. I watch both gay and straight AND SIDEWAYS porn! (whatever that is). Relax people - it's just sex!!

So why do I feel more fist fucked after being molested by Christian beliefs than I ever feel after tub sex making love with our fists......

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

I wonder if he also shares his porn viewing with his black “adopted” “son”

*Habits. He shares his porn habits with his son as an accountability measure. Still only slightly less weird though...

Which is like trying to keep the ocean from the shore using a toothpick. Men will always seek out porn even if they have to draw it themselves. It's actually healthy for us and it's also quite important to us in other ways.

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.

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

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.

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.

I doubt God cares where people put their penises or direct their keyboard searches. If such a god is out there - I can't imagine anything less likely to consume his/her/its attention than what people do sexually or what they enjoy watching. Even if it is something we humans deem morally wrong - I doubt he/she/it really gives a godly $hit about it all.

No doubt, the national security risk from something like this is pretty significant. IIRC, Covenant Eyes is basically a rootkit that you voluntarily install and you can get around it by booting from USB.

Many fundamentalists take a lot of pride in being Luddites. Knowing too much about computers and the internet can be 'Worldly'. Church networks are often wide open and church computers are frequently infected. Leadership roles in fundy churches - as low as Sunday School teacher - can come with an email address and instead of using webmail, members will install add-ridden software given by the webhosting company of their website. There are companies that specialize in providing webhost and associated services to fundie churches.

There's an entire cottage industry of 'Christian' software and computer services. You know they're good people because they have a fish symbol on their homepage and some bible crap in their about section.

The exploits write themselves.

It definitely happens in Utah. The social rules are very different behind the Zion Curtain

Welcome to Murica. Land of the free, as long as you do what we tell you to do.

Well it's close to it. They don't actually come look at what we're browsing, but missionaries show up and ask if we're making sure we're doing the "lord's work" on our computers. I usually say yes - the lord wants me to be searching for gay porn, it's what Jesus would want. (I've never said that but I certainly would love to).

You've no idea what's it's like. Remember the movie "Stepford Wives?" Everyone has a placid "everything is fine" look on their face because the church demands it here - conform, or suffer the consequences. I've seen so many lives destroyed by the mormons. They framed a mormon friend of mine over some joke he made, they turned him into the police as a child molester (because his wife does operate a child care center) and they trumped up charges, and took his property away from him. Yet in court he was found absolutely not guilty of any wrong doing - yet by then, his life was utterly ruined. You think Mormons are Saints? Guess again.

We've had mormon missionaries come to our door and insinuate that they know whether we're doing the lord's work or not and that they can have us jailed just on suspicion of not doing the lord's work alone.

"Does he have weird third-party monitoring software on his government phone?" is what the headline is referencing, that's a massive problem. Confidential info could end up who-knows-where if it was sniffed.

Given christian track records? Him being underage might have been the point.

Unanimously. This is their guy.

Isn't porn committing adulteration by definition? Or, commtting adultness. We can't have that in our society.

Reminds me of Two and A Half Men where Jake doesnt get the whole "look at whatever direction o' clock" and misses that it tells you the direction so Charlie says whatever o'clock when there's a girl his age and he just says like "Check". Making it totally useless

Whatever this company is charging to watch Mike Johnson masterbate, I'll do it for half price.

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.

looks fiddly, did IT for 20 years and tired of chasing scammers. all I do is change router dns to opendns #s and let them sort lists. too easy to use