The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

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    1 year ago

    Except at it’s core chromium is open source, and I can’t see the FOSS community embracing the idea. The French also wouldn’t be able to fully limit access to unrestricted browsers.

    It’s an all round dumb idea. Much easier and more effective to tell ISPs to do the blocking.

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      Sure, Chromium is open source, but let’s not pretend that the community has any say over Chromium’s direction. Google is making the decisions, we’re just allowed to watch