it costs almost as much as Netflix ($204/year)

LMAO what?! My god, it could not be more obvious that every single anti-porn crusader out there has serious issues with self-control and project it onto the rest of society. And let's not even get into the fact that they have a ridiculously unhealthy understanding of human sexuality.

I'm in the wrong business.

Fun fact: Before starting his weird anti-porn spyware company the CEO of Covenant Eyes, Ronald DeHaas, worked as a geologist for Chevron in the 70s. In fact, he's still helping to destroy the planet by working as a consultant for the petroleum industry. He never actually stopped. So he's always been an unscrupulous P.O.S.

Some Christian men talk about “SSA” (same sex attraction) and their struggle to “resist the temptation”. As a non-repressed straight man, this is not something I’ve ever dealt with. I feel bad that these people are so indoctrinated and intimidated by their weird-ass culture that they can’t just relax and go grab a dick.

That's exactly what it is, a major projection of their own inner sexual turmoil. Whether they are closeted homosexuals or not, and really in the case of Mike Johnson I hope he isn't because I don't want him among us LGBTQ folks, they definitely are projecting some hugely enormous interest in the sex behaviors and genitalia of other dudes. As a gay man - I'm kind of in awe of their penchant for penis worship.

Fear of bigger dicks, I think. The opposite is their obsession with BBCs with white women. Not a psychologist, arm-chair opinion.

The risk does not stop at the line of classification. Comms for example, anyone he texts or is texted to those screens are taken and stored off.

It is a risk to national security, period. It’s a fuckin social engineering jackpot for fucks sake.

If he is following proper protocols and procedures: Yes

If he were following proper protocol, he wouldn't willingly install spyware in the first place.

And unless he is VERY strictly separating his work and his personal devices, there is inevitable leakage. Even something as simple as getting too close to the line on "So I need to fly out to Nevada to check out these weather balloon things and make sure everything is fine" and so forth.

But also? All of this is publicly available information. At a high level, there are two kinds of classified material. Stuff that is classified by specific rules and are generally based on science and technology. And the other is "national security" and is more or less anything a bureaucrat thinks is important.

So the POTUS liking two shots of soy milk in his coffee is not classified because soy milk and coffee are not classified. But if it is decided that "terrorists" might attack the soy milk supply chain? Suddenly there is an argument that that information is sensitive.

And there are a LOT of arguments to be made regarding the Speaker of the House's personal ties and vulnerabilities becoming "sensitive".

And then you have people like trump who just give zero shits and are likely to take a picture of a document so they can show it to other people later.

Right, even if he had access to classified information in an unsecured space, the classified system would have its own encryption device and its own systems separate from the unclassified network.

That's only part of it though. Another component is that anyone having access to his personal devices --let alone his porn habits-- potentially has compromising information on him. Once he's compromised, he's a national security threat, full stop.

What if he's having an affair and there's evidence of it on his phone? What if he's doing other shady shit that involves not having a bank account? You better believe the Russians and/or the CCP would love to have compromat on the Speaker.