Home Speaker Mike Johnson and his teenage son used an “accountability” software program program to observe one another’s telephones and different digital gadgets to scan for any “objectionable” exercise, the lawmaker defined at an occasion at his Louisiana church occasion captured in a resurfaced video clip from final yr.
It wasn’t instantly clear what objectionable actions Johnson and his son, who was 17 on the time, had been focusing on.
The web site for the subscription-based “accountability” program named by Johnson, Covenant Eyes, targets porn. The primary web page of its web site asks: “Struggling to stop watching porn?” It then warns: “You are Not Alone.”
Johnson referred to his son within the interview as “my accountability associate.”
They every acquired weekly “reviews” on one another’s use of their digital gadgets, he defined in on-stage interview at Johnson’s church, the Cypress Baptist Church, in Benton, Louisiana.
It something “objectionable” pops up, the accountability associate is alerted, he mentioned. This system seeks key phrases, search phrases and pictures, he defined. “Questionable” mages despatched to accountability companions are “blurred,” mentioned Johnson.
“I am proud to say my son has a clear slate,” Johnson famous.
Johnson characterised the digital spy operation as a “conflict on the darkness of expertise.” The occasion was referred to as the “Conflict on Know-how.”
There are some “very constructive issues” about expertise, Johnson mentioned, however there are additionally “some actually darkish issues.”
Johnson mentioned he had been utilizing Covenant Eyes in his family for a “very very long time.”
