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Yo-Yo Ma's #SongsOfComfort: "Prayer" by Ernest Bloch

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mmmirele3/21/2021 12:59:30 pm PDT

The murders of 8 people at Atlanta spas last week has sent me down a pretty weird rabbit hole and I’m not sure how far I want to go. One thing that Evangelical churches are into is OMG PORN IS BAD. You can get an idea as to how it is by reading this article written in the aftermath of the killer’s actions:

When Brad Onishi heard that the man accused of a rampage at three Atlanta-area spas told detectives that he had carried out the attacks as a way to eliminate his own temptations, the claim sounded painfully familiar.

Onishi, who grew up in a strict evangelical community in Southern California that emphasized sexual purity, had spent his teenage years tearing out any advertisements in surfing magazines that featured women in bikinis. He had traded his online passwords with friends to hold himself accountable.

“We had a militant vigilance: Don’t let anything in the house that will tempt you sexually,” Onishi, now an associate professor of religious studies at Skidmore College, recalled.

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If a person (usually, almost inevitably, a guy) has an issue with porn (either self-defined, or defined by his church), there are “helpful” software packages you can install on your devices that will log your activities and send them on to an accountability partner. Just a cursory look at one software package reveals so many issues.

I looked at “Ever Accountable,” which appears to be the replacement software for x3watch. It’s unclear exactly what the software blocks or what the software algorithm is. I’m sure it blocks the usual porn sites, like Pornhub, but what else does it block? Does it block articles that talk about LGBTQIA issues? Famous paintings of nude women? What else? I can’t tell.

Ever Accountable has a legal agreement and I took a cursory look at it. I’m putting it behind the button but basically, it has the hair on the back of my neck prickling.

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Ever Accountable isn’t the only “accountability software” out there. There are quite a few software packages, including one called Breathe (by Qustodio) that pitches their porn monitoring software in a very secular fashion. I have been tempted to download them and see if I can “break” them, as in, what do they block, but I’m afraid if I do that, I might have to nuke my computer from orbit.

That said, this is really something which needs investigating, because there’s this huge “porn epidemic” (at least according to Evangelicals and the Utah legislature), people are turning over their devices to these companies which are absolutely hiding what they’re blocking, and who knows how the data the companies are scraping is being stored?