Mike Johnson has not even been House Speaker for a full two weeks, but we've managed to learn a tremendous amount about him—most of which could be charitably described as extremely not good. This weekend, though, brought a new category of details about the congressional leader, the response to which has been: WTF?

The reveal, via Rolling Stone, is that as of at least last year, Johnson and his then 17-year-old son monitored each other’s porn usage in an effort to ensure neither was watching any. How, you might ask, could anyone possibly know this? Johnson talked about it publicly in 2022.

Yes, in a recently unearthed clip, the representative from Louisiana extolled the virtues of a piece of technology called Covenant Eyes, the purpose of which is to stop anyone who subscribes to it from looking at porn or what it deems questionable images. “Covenant Eyes is the software we’ve been using for a long time in our household,” Johnson said on a panel at a conference about the dangers of technology. “It scans…all the activity on your phone or your devices, your laptop, tablet, what have you, we do all of it, and then it sends a report to your accountability partner. So my accountability partner right now is Jack, my son…he is 17. So he and I get a report of all the things that are on…our devices once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell you my son has got a clean slate.” Johnson added: “It’s really sensitive, it’ll pick up almost anything, it looks for keywords, search terms, and also images, and it will send your accountability partner a blurred picture of the image.”

In addition to the deep weirdness of a father and son being each other’s “accountability partner(s)” concerning pornography, as the account that unearthed the clip noted, it’s probably not a great idea for a sitting member of Congress to allow “a 3rd Party tech company to scan ALL of his electronic devices daily and then uploading reports to his son about what he’s watching or not watching.” Here’s what Wired reported about Covenant Eyes last year:

Covenant Eyes is part of a multimillion-dollar ecosystem of so-called accountability apps. These apps are marketed to both churches and parents as tools to police online activity, and they charge a monthly fee to do so. Some of these apps monitor everything their users see and do on their devices, even taking screenshots (at least one per minute, in the case of Covenant Eyes) and eavesdropping on web traffic, WIRED found. The apps then report a feed of all of the users’ online activity directly to a chaperone—an “accountability partner,” in the apps’ parlance. When WIRED presented its findings to Google, however, the company determined that two of the top accountability apps—Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You—violate its policies.

It’s unclear if Johnson still uses the technology; he became a member of Congress in 2016.

In the 12 days since being elected Speaker of the House, it’s emerged that Johnson—among other things—blamed the fall of the Roman Empire in part on “rampant homosexual behavior”; said same-sex marriage would lead to people marrying their pets; and worked with a conversion therapy group that claimed it could turn gay people straight. On Sunday, pressed in an interview with Fox News about some of his other views, he said he would not introduce measures to ban IVF—but did not respond either way on the question of banning contraception.