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.

This 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.

    • venia_sil@fedia.io
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, cheese being edible is now pretty much worldwide accepted, like pineapple on pizza, and it wasn’t even really “weird” back at the time. Snails on the other hand…