New Republican House speaker Mike Johnson previously disclosed the creepy way he and
his teen son hold each other accountable when it comes to salacious content
available on the internet, if you will.
Now, a clip of his statements were recently unearthed
by X user receipt Maven.
And here's what we're talking about.
Covenant eyes is the software that I we've been using a long time in our household.
So what it does real simply is it has an algorithm and software.
It's way above my head how it works, but it scans.
You obviously opt into it, but it scans every all the activity
on your phone or your devices, your laptop, tablet, what have you.
We do all of it, and then it sends a report to your accountability partner.
So my accountability partner right now is Jack my son.
Right.
And so he's 17. So he and I get a report of all the things that are on our phones
or all of our devices once a week, if anything objectionable comes up,
your accountability partner gets an immediate notice.
I'm proud to tell you, my son is he's got a clean slate.
It looks for keywords, search terms and also images.
And it will send your accountability partner a blurred picture of the image.
I'm really hoping that that company is a donor of his or something,
and he's just promoting them, but it doesn't actually implement this technology
in the context of his household.
I just think that it's a gross violation of privacy.
You're talking about a 17 year old son. He's not a child.
And I don't know, it's kind of weird to get images
of some of the salacious content that he might be watching, or vice versa.
Now, I should note that he has four children.
So the House speaker said that said the following about all four of his children
during a 2020 podcast appearance.
One excellent solution to protect them from the harmful stuff online
is the Covenant Eyes software, which emails a regular summary report
of a user's internet activity to a chosen accountability partner.
This is a great way for all of us parents to help guard the hearts of our teenagers.
A dad can protect his son and model integrity for him
by exchanging these reports.
In our house.
When you get a smartphone, it comes with this requirement
and it has worked very well for us.
Check it out now.
Jake, I might be unfair because I don't have kids, so I don't know what it's like
to want to like, protect my children.
You have children, though.
You're going to have one of them or both of them install
covenant eyes and spy on them.
Like this.
Okay, so let's start with how creepy the title Covenant Eyes is.
So super creepy.
- Who wants to be watched by Covenant. - Eyes under his.
Eye? Okay, it's like already weird.
And so look, this has two problems.
One is no, I'm going to be honest with you guys.
To answer this question bluntly, I do not want to know what my 17 year
old son is going to be watching.
He's not 17, 18, 13. I don't want to know now, let alone when he's 17. At 17,
I definitely don't want to know. Okay, so but I'm going to parent him.
I'm going to talk to him about what's responsible, what's not, what's real,
what's not, you know, and how you should have real relationships in the real world.
But I'm not going to monitor his, you know, teenage years for like, what did
you look at next, Oh, send it to me.
No, no, but what's the only thing that's worse than that is.
So what if Mike Johnson, you know,
breaks down and watches something, it's going to get sent to his son.
- Why is that considered crazy? - Yeah.
No, but why is that considered breaking down?
Look, I acknowledge that for some porn can actually be detrimental.
Right?
But I do think that first of all, porn has been around forever.
And there are people who watch porn and they're perfectly fine.
If there's some sort of agreement within your relationship where you're
not watching porn, then okay, great.
But like implementing like this kind of technology
in order to hold each other accountable, aside from being creepy, there's
like serious privacy concerns as well.
Because think about what this technology does.
Think about what this app actually does, okay?
Receipt Maven, who posted the video and unearthed it, says that a US congressman
is allowing a third party tech company to scan all of his electronic devices daily
and then uploading reports to his son about what he's watching or not watching.
I mean, who else is accessing that data?
And wired actually wrote about Covenant Eyes
and other apps like it just last year.
And what they found was extremely concerning.
When wired, downloaded, decompiled, and tested Covenant Eyes, we found
that the app was built to collect, monitor and report all sorts of innocent behavior.
The application exploited Android's accessibility permissions
to monitor almost everything someone does on their phone.
These apps.
Either capture screenshots of everything actively being viewed on the device,
or detect the name of apps as they're being used, and record every
website visited in the device's browser.
It's a lot of information that's being collected by this app, and you're just
willy nilly doing it because porn bad.
Yeah, porn dangerous.
Like have a conversation with your son about the potential dangers of porn.
That's totally fine.
But this kind of stuff and this kind of software, I'm not for it.
I'm against it. Yeah.
It's nuts in so many different ways. Think about it, guys.
Your personal health records, your bank statements,
including your bank account numbers.
That's going to go to Covenant Eyes.
And the covenant eyes are always watching. Right.
And it's going to go to your son.
Your son now knows your bank account and how much you.
This is every part of this is nuts. And now they have, by the way, if they
wanted to do blackmail, this is perfect.
You just handing it over to them. This is.
I mean, given that he's a speaker of the House, that means he's third in line
for the presidency.
It's a bit of a national security issue that he's using this creepy software.
And besides which, you know what they should do with Mike Johnson right now?
They should check his computer at his house office.
Right.
Because I guarantee you, he didn't put covenant Eyes on his office computer.
And watching porn from your office computer in the House of Representatives
is a bigger problem, right?
You tell me he didn't do that. Maybe.
Maybe. Okay.
But I bet if you went and checked there, you might find some interesting things
that his son hasn't seen.
Okay.
And you think that a 17 year old boy isn't going to cheat,
and he's not going to figure out a way to use his friend's computer
or some other computer to find a way.
Of course he's going to find a way.
- He's got the burner already. - Yeah, and or a burner phone.
All this is total nonsense.
And look, to each his own in terms of their how they raise their kids
and, you know, and everybody's got a different point of view.
But stop being creepy with your kids, okay?
Parent them, show them the right things, and then give them a little bit of
independence without checking in on their sex lives and this kind of maniacal way.
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