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·
    1 year ago

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

    • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      1 year 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.