• Neato
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      By waiting until people are used to their shit and posting completely normal stories about them. No one would believe them.

  • arthurpizza
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    Okay, that’s a red flag. Someone check his hard drive.

    • Fuck spez
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      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.

      “Myself, on the other hand? Petabytes of CSAM.”

        • @evidences@lemmy.world
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          Nah this stuff is full on spyware having a VPN wouldn’t stop it from triggering. This is the software Josh Sugar had installed on his PC turns out partitioning the hard drive and installing another OS will get around it.

    • Teon
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      You spelled weird wrong.
      It’s spelled, *psycho.

    • @jimbo@lemmy.world
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      I remember this kind of stuff back from my days as an evangelical Christian…they applaud this kind of nonsense, even though every single one of the users of this kind of software has some way around it. Purity culture craziness.

  • reflex
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    he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn

    Covenant Eyes sounds like some Handmaid’s Tale shit.

      • @Salix@sh.itjust.works
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        Oh wow, I didn’t know Xenos Church changed their name. Trying to mask themselves with a name change.

        • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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          52 years ago

          They also use a bunch of other names for smaller groups that are really part of Xenos. They know the reputation follows them.

        • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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          Their tactics are pretty good and could get a lot of people, really. They do what’s called “love bombing”. One of them will befriend you, and invite you somewhere. You won’t realize you’re being targeted for recruitment. For that outing, the goal of nearly everyone there will be to make sure YOU are having a good time and feel accepted.

          They’ll try to draw you in deeper, maybe try to get you to go to a Bible study (even if you aren’t religious.) If you have other friends, they’ll either try to draw them in with you, or they’ll do what they can to distance you from them. Even something as simple as hearing you have plans and then inviting you somewhere else on that day.

          Eventually they’ll push a little harder on trying to get you to conform. If that goes well, they’ll try to get you to move in. At that point it’s a lot harder to extract yourself. They’ll try to keep you so busy with activities that you don’t have time for anything else.

          During all this, they’ll try to get you to share personal things. It’s okay to talk about your sins, that’s how you get past them.

          Past that point, if you try to extract they’ll start to use those things against you. Did you tell them about child abuse or pictures or something about a boyfriend/girlfriend? As discouragement from dissidence, they’ll hold meetings where they discuss those things as a topic. They have spyware on your phone at this point, so they may share anything embarrassing there they can find. They’ll threaten to tell your parents all the sins you’ve admitted.

          It’s pretty insidious.

    • yildo
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      Next step up from using confession material for blackmailing parishioners

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    I get that lots of jokes are to be made about the porn part but what really should be concerning everyone is that the current Speaker of the House pays a third party to snoop on every aspect of his phone.

    Was he using his personal phone for any of his duties in Congress?

    Is he still using this phone with even more potentially secret government information as a member of the Gang of 8?

    This is a MASSIVE security risk, who the fuck knows what information this Covenant Eyes “company” is now privy to.

    ETA: From a Wired article from Sept 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

    “But Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You do much more than just police pornography. When WIRED downloaded, decompiled, and tested Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You, we found that both apps are built to collect, monitor, and report all sorts of innocent behavior. The applications exploited Android’s accessibility permissions to monitor almost everything someone does on their phone. While the accessibility functionalities are meant to help developers build out features that assist people with disabilities, these apps take advantage of such permissions to 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.”

    Emphasis mine. This is exactly what I’m talking about. Dude has this software on every one of his devices and now the Christofascists behind Covenant Eyes and any one willing to hack them, ie foreign governments, has screenshots of everything he is viewing. Massive massive security risk.

    • @TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world
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      Covenant Eyes is what Anna Duggar was using to keep Josh Duggar accountable. He’s been in jail for like a year now for CSAM. Pretty sure C.E. is just a data mining operation that uses fundie fear to make money.

      • @guacupado@lemmy.world
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        Once upon a time I didn’t think a president would hide classified documents in a bath tub or Tweet to the entire world our satellite surveillance capabilities, yet here we are.

      • Janoose
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        What is your source for this?

        Should he? Absolutely, his personal phone with this tracking software should never be anywhere near the Capitol.

        Dude doesn’t even have a bank account, show everyone the proof that he’s actually using a different, secure phone. Never assume Republicans are doing what’s secure, there is absolutely no proof that they do.

  • swope
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    Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

    What level is considered safe?

    Asking for a friend.

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    As a parent, thats just some shit you don’t wanna know. Like idgaf if its furry or scat shit keep it to yourself, kid.

      • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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        332 years ago

        Sounds like it’s a good thing you don’t have kids, but you also might change your priorities if and when you have them

        • @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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          I’m not saying I would hate them or disown them or anything, just that it would bother me. It’s like, what if you found out that your kids watched midget amputee scat porn? Would you be like “ok that’s normal, carry on!”?

          • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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            I would remember why I already knew that I never wanted to know what porn my kids watch. I would only have a problem with abusive types of porn, that would require a talk about consent, respect and boundaries.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    212 years ago

    Mike Johnson is a walking argument for voting against 70+ year-old geriatrics who can’t string together coherent sentences.

    All it takes is one exceedingly unlucky accident and that motherfucker becomes president.

  • @gaiussabinus@lemmy.world
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    192 years ago

    Isn’t this the kind of thing TOR and a private browsing session was made for? Additionally this is just bizarre.

  • @Delphia@lemm.ee
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    Its really creepy and intrusive. But at the same time, I can find really fucked up porn with literally zero effort.

    I mean, if your kid has terrabytes of rough incest bdsm porn people will ask why you werent monitoring their internet use, but monitoring them like this feels like a different kind of weird.

    • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      162 years ago

      Shit, if your kid has terabytes of train videos you need to intervene. Terabytes of any specific thing and… son we need to talk

      • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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        Thats what I mean, how do you know unless you’re either using this shit or searching the HDD. I was a kid back when porn was Jpgs traded on floppy disks or grainy 480x320 10 second realplayer clips.