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

www.newsweek.com Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns

The new House Speaker, spoke about how he installed "accountability software" called Covenant Eyes on his devices to monitor online activity.

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

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.

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