“Covenant Eyes”
my parents had this installed on our home desktop a couple years ago when I was a kid. It didn’t track iframes well back then. Looked up a lot of queer shit from inside of pages with embedded iframes of the sites I wanted to go to.
the part that is really evil though, is that some of this software doesn’t actually block anything. It just records and narcs about anything it doesn’t approve of. You start censoring your own viewing habits and thought patterns to steer clear of things even remotely related.
I got caught once reading about Matthew Shepard. They locked me in my room for three days and left food / water outside.
Of course, comrade! If you ever need an ear, you know where to find me. For real. I love listening.
Presumably because they own a shit ton of property and can do what they want with it. It's a terrifyingly brilliant scheme to coax people into joining and staying with your death cult though.
This is the only kind of welfare American conservatives approve too. You can either choose to submit to the will of insane Christian freaks or starve
GRACEPOINT IS THE kind of evangelical Southern Baptist church that’s compelled to publicly enumerate all of the ways it’s not a cult. “We’ll admit that we’re a bit crazy about the Great Commission and sharing the Gospel,” reads an FAQ page titled, “Is Gracepoint a Cult?” So when Grant Hao-Wei Lin came out to a Gracepoint church leader during their weekly one-on-one session, he was surprised to learn that he wasn’t going to be kicked out. According to his church leader, Hao-Wei Lin says, God still loved him in spite of his “struggle with same-sex attraction."
Uh what the fuck he's only "struggling" because you fucks tell him it's sinful.
Oh look manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.
I did not have "theocratic porn surveillance" on my 2022 bingo card.
If you told someone today that there is no justifiable reason for the government to ever surveill or track you unless you specifically are being investigated for a specific crime they'd look at you like you are a space alien.
This particular "shameware" app isn't new. If you're familiar with the Duggars and their creepy empire, they've mandated stuff like this for their flock for years.
COVENANT EYES
GRACE POINT
I'm sorry America, but you can't have religion anymore. It's going into the teacher's desk
app called "Covenant Eyes." that snitches everything you do to your pastor and parents
:so-true: "wholesome family values"
don't say n-word
:wojak-nooo: "literally 1984!!!!"
This sort of thing is why I can't be too hard on euphoric atheists (except if they go full calipers, of course). A lot of them grew up in psychotic cults like this. During their formative years, it was the only way they'd ever experienced religion, and no amount of bringing up liberation theology will undo their trauma.
Remember that quote about how if you were online in the early 2000s, and you thought all the worlds problems came from religion, then you had either evolved into a marxist/socialist, or you had become a caliper-obsessed skull analyst.
For example, in Covenant Eyes reports that Hao-Wei Lin shared with WIRED, his online psychiatry textbook was rated “Highly Mature,” the most severe category of content reserved for “anonymizers, nudity, erotica, and pornography.”
There is no behavior as heinous to them as looking at actual science.
True, but that's also giving psychiatry a bit too much credit.
Man why does real cyberpunk have to be so lame? We get the techno-dystopianism without the radical punk culture.
Because all the resistance and "you have agency in the dystopia" stuff is the escapist part of cyberpunk as a genre.
no dense urban dwellings either, that's also an escapist part because the US has actual dystopian infrastructure (sprawl designed to force you to use a car). Even here in Seattle everything feels to sparse. Too wide of roads, too many roads, nothing is actually "dense" in any way, and the businesses are always in a different spot than most of the housing (whereas other cities might have housing with more interspersed businesses).
No Awakening, no Goblinization, no magic, no AmerInd takeover of half the United States. This drek's not wiz, chummer.
This is the kind of church the guy that murdered all of those Asian women in Atlanta belongs to.
lmao evangelicals are alternately hilarious and terrifying
This sounds exactly like the church / cult I was raised in (covenant eyes included). It's super insidious since once they isolate you they then hold the threat of excommunication / shunning over you if you don't follow their doctrine. The threat of losing all of your social connections and even stuff like college housing is enough to keep a lot of people trapped even once they want out.
Children, people raised in these groups
these are the only not dumb ones, sorry
So I've come across this absolutely insane notion of accountability before but holy shit has the software really popped off.
