cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/[email protected]/t/57607
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
so in the download section of firefox website, there will be notice: “not recommended for use in france”
problem solved 🤣
Add your name to our petition to help stop this part of the bill from becoming law.
Where can I find the text of the petition that they will be submitting to the French government? How do I know what I am signing if they don’t actually display the petition text?
Idk does France government knows that they can block addresses on ISP level but anyway, I’m not France government.
On ISP level? Only with DNS blocking. Which is pointless since you can simply change the DNS server to some non-ISP one. That’s probably why they want to force this stupidity onto browsers. Which is even more stupid and pointless.
What about curl and wget? Telnet?
- Like a lot of lawmakers they have no concept of how the internet works. They think it’s like regulating cars (i.e. of course this handful of browser manufacturers will obey the law, so passing the law will control the behavior of the browsers).
- They may think that even a ham-fisted law that doesn’t match reality will give them some ability to control what non-tech-savvy citizens are able to see, and there may be some validity to that (although much less than they’d probably hope).
- I don’t think this is France’s government right now, but certain governments can get a lot of mileage out of laws that are obviously impossible. In Russia, it’s illegal to criticize the war, which is obviously impossible to enforce – and yet, there are a bunch of people in prison, because they criticized the war and the government decided to single them out to be punished. It can be a ridiculous and impossible law; they’re still in prison.
□ I’m okay with Mozilla handling my info as explained in this Privacy Notice.
the privacy notice doesn’t relate to the poll, is as fuzzy as it can be and doesn’t even come close to mentioning there is mandatory e-mail field (not talking about explaining how it is handled). i am afraid that checkbox is not going to be checked from me.
Ironic, how Mozilla themselves wanted to ‘amplify factual voices’.
Brave shill/chrome shill or both?
