France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet – Open Policy & Advocacy
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Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.

In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments that will easily negate the existence of censorship circumvention tools.

  • smileyhead
    10·
    10 months ago

    Just Internet? Browsers are client side software. It’s a danger to open computing in general.

    • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      10 months ago

      This law is written by tech illiterate old seniles that do not understand Internet. This law will be fucking pointless, it will take seconds to go past it.