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.
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/
14 Comments
Mannimarco@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 3y
"Well intentioned" my pasty white ass it's well intentioned, they know exactly what they are doing. Fuck these people
Eikichi@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 3y
In French we have an expression "la route de l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intention".
I guess in english its " the hell's road is made with good intentions"
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 3y
We have the same saying in English:
The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions.
Eikichi@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 3y
Oh thanks mate
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 3y
No worries 👍 always happy to have cultural exchange
nexusband@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Goes to show, we're not that different after all.
kool_newt@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 3y
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net · 17 pts · 3y
Everyone wants to destroy the open Internet. Our own reichfuhrer has introduced C-11 which sticks the governments fingers directly into websites, and C-18 which ends the universal concept that hyperlinking is free of charge.
At the rate we're going, the free and open internet will be a memory I tell my great grandkids about, like using the analog telephone to get on the internet at 9600bps on a computer with much less computing power than my wristwatch.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 3y
yeah cause thats bullshit. no biggie, but I had a 36.6kbps modem. its nice to be elite
Eikichi@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 3y
France is taking the lead for the fascism in the World.
We dont have the capital but we have ideas.
le_pouffre_bleu@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
Right now in the EU :
EU’s Draconian Social Media Censorship Laws Are Now Officially Enforceable
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
Right now in France :
Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case
France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
I'll just keep living in my third world country where they are too stupid or poor to enact these dystopian policies
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Oh don't worry, they'll reach you wether you like it or not
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 3y
Just Internet? Browsers are client side software. It's a danger to open computing in general.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 3y
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.