It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.

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    That headline is… incredibly inaccurate. They’ve pledged to each other to avoid porn, and have software that throws an alarm (visible to each other) if they view it.

    “Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake” implies that they are seeking out porn and sharing it with each other, which is not what is happening here.

    I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns here, but father and son sharing porn links is not one of them.

    Also, I imagine young Mr. Johnson has at least 1 Android tablet or other burner device that is unknown to Dad.

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      I mean when I read “monitoring each other’s porn intake” I assumed it meant “monitoring how much porn each other watches”. And considering who it was, I assumed that was for the sake of making sure that they didn’t watch any porn. I did not at any point think that they were sharing porn links with each other, because that’s generally not what monitoring someone’s intake means.

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        I assumed it meant they each keep tabs to make sure the other gets just enough porn each day but not too much.

        Daaaaaaaaad you’ve exceeded your porn allowance for the day and it’s not even elevensies yet! 😠

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          Now this is the quality sarcasm that has disappeared from Reddit! Stay witty, mon ami!

          Edit: this is my high way of saying, “LOL.” 🤣

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            I, uh… I made the same assumption, but unfortunately it wasn’t sarcastic. I imagined it being like two bros that have an alcohol problem but don’t “believe” in rehab (whatever that means), so they make a deal to check each other’s recycle bins and call each other out when they’re not keeping it under 3 a day.

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        “It sends a report to your accountability partner.

        Depends on what is in that report. If it shows visited links. That would also make it pandering to a minor.

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      Right, because making your son your porn accountability buddy is an extremely normal and healthy thing to do.

      How dare this article make it sound like such a healthy and normal thing is somehow extremely weird and creepy!?!

      It’s not like he had his wife holding him accountable for not looking at naked bodies online. That would be disgusting. No, like any upstanding citizen he wisely decided that he’d have it alert his son if temptation ever became too much and he looked at porn.

      If only he had a parenting guide so that we could all learn to run a household in ways that will definitely not result in all the kids needing therapy down the road.

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      No, what monitoring in this context means is to be made aware of each other’s porn INTAKE, or how much is being consumed and when, which the software is said to do. Nothing is suggesting they seek porn out to share content with each other, just that they are alerted when the other accesses porn.

      I’d bet youre right about the alternative devices though.

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        I wouldn’t be shocked to find there’s something to the jokes.

        Sexually repressed conservatives usually have freaking weird kinks.

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        In any other context, “monitoring intake” implies that the monitored party is consuming a quantity of the thing under discussion, and that the monitoring party is getting a report on what, when, and how much.

        You wouldn’t say “monitoring food intake” about someone abstaining from food, or “monitoring alcohol intake” about someone maintaining sobriety. You’d probably say “fasting” or “avoiding alcohol”, or similar language. Such language should have been used here for clarity, IMO.

        People on the thread are responding like they are reviewing each other’s porn, because the language encourages that misinterpretation.

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          I would say “monitoring food intake” means “making sure there isn’t too much”. One can infer through context that “too much” porn to conservative Christians would be “any” porn. Given the context of who the article is discussing, I did not assume they were sharing porn with each other. I have not seen any comments where this was assumed, as well.

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          “son, i’m going to be fasting from my big tiddy goth gf porn, care to help me out?”

          Nope, still sounds fuckin weird my g

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          I just looked into the app being used here, called “covenant eyes” and it seems your interpretation of the phrase is actually more correct, unfortunately that makes the headline even less misleading. You are indeed able to see and review exactly what content was accessed that set off the alert.

          If you watch the “How it works” intro video on their site it seems they are literally monitoring and reviewing each other’s porn intake.

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      Nah, I didn’t read the headline thinking that they were sharing links with each other. It read to me like he and his son are holding each other accountable for how often they pleasure themselves with porn, and that’s incredibly fucking weird and inappropriate. While I think it’s generally a positive thing to be open and honest with your children, there is definitely a line. And this totally crosses that.

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      I feel like the reason they’d have to make a pledge like this in the first place is because one or both of them already got caught watching porn.

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      I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns here

      Absolutely, Covenant Eyes is malware. Even worse, courts sometimes mandate it, eg in child custody cases. It’s commercialised spying from a business that has proven itselt not trustworthy.

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      Maybe you can explain how the headline isn’t 100000000% accurate instead of confirming it’s completely accurate

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      Also, everyone is reading this as some kind of creepy weird sharing kinks thing. Guaranteed this is just overbearing parenting 101. Anyone raised in or around extreme Christian groups reads this for what it is: child monitoring software and forcing your values on your kid.

      I am sure your 17 year old signed up, wholly voluntarily, to not look at porn. I’m sure this wasn’t pitched as, “I’ll even do it too, and set it up so you get alerts for me!” Right as they took away a near adult’s ability to explore his sexuality.

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    “It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17.

    So he’s sharing what kind of porn he looks at with a minor.

    I’m sure the republicans will be very upset about that. Right?..

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      I think the point here is to not look at porn becaue his son is then going to find out about it. “He’s sharing what kind of porn he looks at with a minor” is about as stupid take on this as that article is to begin with.

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        Arguing for involving your own son in the management of your porn habits, is that really the hill you want to die on?

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          I’m sorry, but are we reading the same article? There’s no mention of anybody sending porn to anyone let alone about reading books to kids in a costume. You alright man?

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    I have a gut feeling that something really nasty is going to come out about this guy. I mean worse than we all think he already is.

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      I have the same gut feeling. People that behave so righteous usually are hiding something.

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    While having weekly reports sent to your son on your internet viewing and getting the same on your son is creepy as hell I think the article raises a better concern of : who else at this company can see this info and is this on his phone used for government work?

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      probably not. but, chances are there’s a shit load of viruses because, you know. downloading all that porn on devices that don’t nark…

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      Bro these people work for the government.

      I guarantee their InfoSec is worse than your grandmother who has dementia, and clicks on every single link.

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    Every politician that does shit like this gets caught taking it up the ass eventually. And, like, you go girl, but did you really need to be such a dick about everything along the way?

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      I totally agree. He is hiding something and the rest of his party is too stupid to pick up on the signals.

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          The end justifies the means.

          Even if we have to burn down all of creation to do show.

          Pikachu face when they discover creation is bigger than one planet and they needed to massively invest in space ship development starting years ago.

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      How did this start? The conversation had to be at some point

      Well sort of porn do you look at son? Don’t worry, this won’t be a one way street. I love PoV cream pies. Now I need you to report to me everytime you look… at what was it again, trans gangbang? Oh thats a good one. Let me know if those temptresses get ya!

      Like srsly. What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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        The reality is that it’s a mechanism of shame/control. You teach the kid that looking at porn is sinful, masturbation is sinful/shameful, etc… Then you install “accountability” software that rats out the kid whenever he pulls it up. He’s just repackaging an authoritarian, abusive household as “accountability.” They also have devices that connect to your TV and will shut off the audio (based on the closed captions) if it detects a profanity.

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          All I can say is I am thankful that tech didn’t exist when I was 17. Fucking hell. The religious bullshit did enough of a number on me.

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          He’s just repackaging an authoritarian, abusive household as “accountability.”

          this. it’s not about the porn so much as it is the control and the ability to shame. Also, how much you wanna bet the kid gets talked to if he ever goes onto a democratic website?

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          Yup. Same energy as a father daughter dance where everyone signs “purity contracts” and then they get a promise ring to save themselves for marriage. It’s about guilt and control and religious-based puritanism. People are making this seem like a weird sex thing with religious undertones when it’s totally not. It’s a weird religious thing with sexual undertones. Completely different!

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        I imagine something more like this: Son, I got an alert that you’re watching porn. I’ll be there in 5. Dad, why can’t we just watch porn on our own? Don’t be silly son, how else will we hold each other accountable?

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      And all this regular effort in avoiding it probably just makes the son more motivated to find ways to avoid detection. Prepaid smartphone, that sort of thing.

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    This sounds like he and his son have a porn addiction and they work together to act as a deterrent. But I’m sure they just get around the “parental controls” they installed on each other’s devices.

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    I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that he has a buddy system to monitor porn intake or that its his son that looks at his porn history. Guys like this only get weirder as you get to hear more of their story.

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    “It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

    Am I just cynical that this sounds more like intentionally training your son to avoid a paper trail from “official” devices? He’s a 17 year old boy, he is almost definitely looking at porn.

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      I bet he is. He probably has found some ways to get around this monitoring system. This is just so damn stupid, how can you be so naive to think this would work?

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    What the actual fuck, and why would you say this publicly? People who morally abstain from porn are always the weirdest motherfuckers.

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      They all too often give of the vibes of “smells a stranger’s hair as they walk by.”

      And given literally every photo of this dude gives me those “hugs a little bit too long for it to be not weird” vibes hand in hand with the other, this seems pretty on brand.

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      it’s because they have an intense interest in controlling sexual expression, which implies a large amount of interpersonal controlling instincts