The operation of the application is simple: it monitors your movements on the internet, specifically if you visit porn websites. The new thing is that it sends a report of your activity on-line to a chosen one from your circle (up to 10 people), so they will know immediately if you have consumed porn.
Mike Johnson, Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, has shared his sympathies for the app. He claims he first heard about Covenant Eyes at a conference of Promise Keepers, a parachurch, Christian, and evangelical organization for men, what historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez described as “the militant ideal of white Christian masculinity.” Johnson confessed that he uses the application to monitor the activity of his son, and his son's activity of his. It seems like a parody. “He doesn't understand what sexuality is and hates sexual education because that's not educating, it's controlling. And control in the end what promotes is greater anxiety in the situation that is avoided, with which, a greater probability of addiction and search for sensations along those lines, greater morbidity, greater rebellion against those who prohibit us.” Ana Sierra, psychologist and clinical sexologist, professor of several postgraduate courses and disseminator, explains to us about Johnson's behavior.
Ron DeHaas, president of Covenant Eyes, is one of these evangelists who intrinsically link sex trafficking and porn addiction and consumption. He founded the company in 2000, warning of the arrival of an apocalypse in the form of Movie X and in order to protect his two then-teenage children from it. Today, Covenant Eyes employs 200 people and has annual revenues of $26 million. As Josep Maria Ganyet, a computer engineer specializing in artificial intelligence, points out, “everything is very puritanical. They call DeHaas the Christian CEO, nothing bad so far, but first, I doubt that this app work; I think it serves more as an advertising claim. On the other hand, for this to be truly effective, the platform must have absolutely all of your privacy. If it is really effective, does it have to see all my photos stored on my external drive to know if I am watching porn or not? Or does it detect with mouse clicks if I'm seeing landscapes or naked bodies? It goes through a total invasion of privacy.”
Such measures might only be justified in a porn-addicted society, but is there such an alarming porn addiction? “These cases are minority. By watching porn it seems that you are perverted or sexually perverted, and that is not the case,” Ana Sierra states emphatically. “As for the application, it is no longer that it is bad, but rather the use to which it is used, like everything. The good thing we can get from something like this is that we become aware of what they are feeding us in the sexual sphere and the damage it can do to us in the short and long term. If you watch violent porn, you will be educated in violent porn and it will violate your life, your relationships, your sexuality and that of others. That is the problem with standard porn.”
In January of this year 2024, the company announced Victory, a app sister with whom to optimize the service offered by Covenant Eyes. Its sensor remains silent on your device and uses artificial intelligence to scan for “concerning” activities and block explicit websites. Covenant Eyes would be installed on all your devices to form a protection network and Victory is where all the data is gathered: a true wall against porn.
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