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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    8 months ago

    I mean, the point of it is to deter you from looking at porn in the first place.

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      8 months ago

      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.