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. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list.

I don’t agree that it’s “well-intentioned” at all but the article goes on to point out the potential for abuse by copyright holders.

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/64123

[ comments | sourced from HackerNews ]

  • @rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125•2 years ago

    I’m imagining Firefox creating a clientside file called government-blocklist.txt, with the understanding of “don’t touch this file, you scamp 😉”

    • zkfcfbzrEnglish
      44•2 years ago

      Or putting the option to disable the blocking in about:config… Or even just the settings page

      • 50gp
        16•2 years ago

        dump the .txt file to the desktop for easy removal by user

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          “it was a bug, see it’s in our database. Don’t worry about the priority being set to ‘suggestion’”