No one else read the article before commenting??

It’s a pretty typical government stuff-up. People with zero technical understanding thinking they can write legislation about technology to solve a tech related problem problem. These things are basically always scrapped or watered-down before they’re even voted on, once politicians start talking to the people in the government who actually have some technical understanding.

what prevents Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc from just ignoring French legislation? it’s not like any fines levied would affect their bottom line in any noticable way.

the French government could develop their own browser I suppose but I really don’t see how it’s be widely adopted, since you’d need a “noncompliant browser” to even download it in the first place.

tryhard bureaucrats need to lay off the koolaid