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.
  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If they implement the site blocking, someone will fork the browser and remove the blocking from it.

    • dogmuffins@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You don’t even need to do that though. It would be the “fork” that contains the blocking, surely.