France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it - eviltoast
  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    As Mozilla points out, there are numerous safe browsing systems to which you can opt in — opting in being the key here — and there’s nothing preventing any entity, the French government included, from creating their own software, browser extension, or DNS service for anti-fraud purposes. They don’t need legislation for that, but they do need laws to force software providers to implement a non-optional, government-operated blacklist of “no-no” sites they deem unacceptable for any reason they see fit; it will absolutely not be limited to fraud alone.

    France’s proposal is so stupefyingly contrived, it’s so obvious this is the true intention.

    • bouh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What’s even more evil is that we already have dns filtering for isp. Somehow, by making this new law they are acknowledging the old one was stupidly ineffective.