cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3389331
More context: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/
So what about things like cURL, wget, Invoke-Webrequest, straight up nc calls. Where does the line exist?
When did France’s government get taken over by US Republicans?
Macron’s been quite the fuckstick of late
When Le Pen gets elected in 4 years we’ll talk about the good old times with Macron.
Yeah amazing how the next asshole can re-contextualize the previous asshole. George W Bush looks practically humanitarian now in comparison to Trump, for example.
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.
