cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3389331
More context: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/
Why do they need to petition it? Mozilla is an American corporation, if they just ignore it, can France do anything punitive to them?
They could have the ISPs block Mozilla web presence I suppose.
I’m in favor (as a french). This would give one more reason for people to be angry. And they need to be.
With the market share Firefox has it would be a drop in the ocean
Ypu underestimate how angry we get for this kind of things
We got pretty angry at that retirement age shit, which has arguably more reach. Still got written into law…
So what about things like cURL, wget, Invoke-Webrequest, straight up nc calls. Where does the line exist?
It’s not about making it impossible to reach certain sites. It’s about making it harder for normies. Take a guess if your neighbor knows about wget.
No, it’s not. It’s just not. The important question is how the law is written. Wild guess: they won’t target “browsers”. They’ll target “means to display remote content” or some shit to not have people rename browsers to surfers to evade that law. And depending on how generic they’ll make it sound, it’ll be a pain for not only every piece of software but maybe also stuff like digital binoculars or phone sex companies or whatever.
They won’t do that because they are stupid ignorant idiots. They don’t make a law like that with a purpose in mind, they are filling an excel sheet.
This is dangerously wrong. This is a classic foot-in-the-door law. They test the waters with something nobody can argue against, like piracy, child porn, terrorism. Then the censoring gets broader and broader until you can’t access left-wing stuff anymore because it’s anti-governmental. There is a very specific, very dangerous purpose in mind.
Edge got a shitstorm for in-browser self ads on the chrome page, now in-browser censoring? The internet bows down to EU, sure, but one nosy country? If at all the official download links for France would be laced, but not anywhere else i.e. its gonna be yet another joykiller for normies, like… even the thought of maintainers pushing another release specificially for a country is laughable. That’s my assessment anyways. Signed
France can fuck off then
