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. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments that will easily negate the existence of censorship circumvention tools.
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In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud
This is not “well-intentioned”, rather, it intentionally has a facade of good intentions. This is an attempt by a state power to further cement their rule by restricting access to information.
Everyone wants to destroy the open Internet. Our own reichfuhrer has introduced C-11 which sticks the governments fingers directly into websites, and C-18 which ends the universal concept that hyperlinking is free of charge.
At the rate we’re going, the free and open internet will be a memory I tell my great grandkids about, like using the analog telephone to get on the internet at 9600bps on a computer with much less computing power than my wristwatch.
yeah cause thats bullshit. no biggie, but I had a 36.6kbps modem. its nice to be elite
Just Internet? Browsers are client side software. It’s a danger to open computing in general.
This law is written by tech illiterate old seniles that do not understand Internet. This law will be fucking pointless, it will take seconds to go past it.