Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
    • Illuminostro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      731·
      11 months ago

      This is what happens when you’re brainwashed from childhood to believe you’re born evil, anyone not on your “team” is more evil, and you must blindly obey authority.

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        602·
        11 months ago

        Organized religion destroys who we are or who we can be by inhibiting our actions and decisions out of fear of an intangible parent-figure who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says “No, no!”

        –Kevin Smith, Dogma

  • reflex@kbin.social
    841·
    11 months ago

    he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn

    Covenant Eyes sounds like some Handmaid’s Tale shit.

      • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Oh wow, I didn’t know Xenos Church changed their name. Trying to mask themselves with a name change.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Their tactics are pretty good and could get a lot of people, really. They do what’s called “love bombing”. One of them will befriend you, and invite you somewhere. You won’t realize you’re being targeted for recruitment. For that outing, the goal of nearly everyone there will be to make sure YOU are having a good time and feel accepted.

          They’ll try to draw you in deeper, maybe try to get you to go to a Bible study (even if you aren’t religious.) If you have other friends, they’ll either try to draw them in with you, or they’ll do what they can to distance you from them. Even something as simple as hearing you have plans and then inviting you somewhere else on that day.

          Eventually they’ll push a little harder on trying to get you to conform. If that goes well, they’ll try to get you to move in. At that point it’s a lot harder to extract yourself. They’ll try to keep you so busy with activities that you don’t have time for anything else.

          During all this, they’ll try to get you to share personal things. It’s okay to talk about your sins, that’s how you get past them.

          Past that point, if you try to extract they’ll start to use those things against you. Did you tell them about child abuse or pictures or something about a boyfriend/girlfriend? As discouragement from dissidence, they’ll hold meetings where they discuss those things as a topic. They have spyware on your phone at this point, so they may share anything embarrassing there they can find. They’ll threaten to tell your parents all the sins you’ve admitted.

          It’s pretty insidious.

    • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I swear, every week I see an article that makes me say, “oh shit, The Handmaid’s Tale is starting”

  • swope@kbin.social
    45·
    11 months ago

    Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

    What level is considered safe?

    Asking for a friend.

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      Dude, I’m willing to bet the son has at least one.

      “I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

      A quote like this tempts fate. I thought he was trying to avoid temptation.

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    11 months ago

    There is no normal, only weird and weirder. Beware the normies, for they are least normal of us all.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    11 months ago

    As a parent, thats just some shit you don’t wanna know. Like idgaf if its furry or scat shit keep it to yourself, kid.

      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        11 months ago

        Sounds like it’s a good thing you don’t have kids, but you also might change your priorities if and when you have them

        • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          I’m not saying I would hate them or disown them or anything, just that it would bother me. It’s like, what if you found out that your kids watched midget amputee scat porn? Would you be like “ok that’s normal, carry on!”?

          • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I would remember why I already knew that I never wanted to know what porn my kids watch. I would only have a problem with abusive types of porn, that would require a talk about consent, respect and boundaries.

  • gaiussabinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    11 months ago

    Isn’t this the kind of thing TOR and a private browsing session was made for? Additionally this is just bizarre.

    • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      Maybe it’s a way to make sure they don’t forget. Like “oh hey bro i saw u had some lewds in ur history make sure u go incognito next time” “Damn u right man good lookin out” fist bump

  • Delphia@lemm.eeEnglish
    132·
    11 months ago

    Its really creepy and intrusive. But at the same time, I can find really fucked up porn with literally zero effort.

    I mean, if your kid has terrabytes of rough incest bdsm porn people will ask why you werent monitoring their internet use, but monitoring them like this feels like a different kind of weird.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      11 months ago

      Shit, if your kid has terabytes of train videos you need to intervene. Terabytes of any specific thing and… son we need to talk

      • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        Thats what I mean, how do you know unless you’re either using this shit or searching the HDD. I was a kid back when porn was Jpgs traded on floppy disks or grainy 480x320 10 second realplayer clips.

      • Delphia@lemm.eeEnglish
        57·
        11 months ago

        Lets be real here, the “Kid” is 17.

        Now I dont know what a healthy father/son relationship looks like because I never had one but it seems to me that knowing “Dad likes blondes with big tits” might be slightly less scarring than being left entirely to your own devices with no oversight and going down a rabbit hole of xvideos fetish porn.

        Theres 2 kinds of men in the world. Those that have beaten their dick, and fucking liars. Maybe this shit is weird and creepy, and maybe they have had honest and open discussions about sex and he is trying to give his son healthy attitudes towards it.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    126·
    11 months ago

    It must be that software that you install that lets your “accountability buddy” check your browsing activity.