cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/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.
What happened to telling governments to go fuck themselves? I remember when it was on the governments to police their citizens and if software violated their laws it was on the government to stop citizens accessing it. Why can they just not comply?
I mean obviously we can do both right? We can both fight stupid laws so they never get passed in the first place and then refuse to comply with them if they do.
so in the download section of firefox website, there will be notice: “not recommended for use in france”
problem solved 🤣
for-profit places will do that. i hardly expect mozilla to abandon the people of an entire country. though i’m sure they’ll make sure everyone knows what VPNs and Tor are if it comes to it.
i hardly expect mozilla to abandon the people of an entire country
that’s not what i meant. i meant that the notice will be only thing that happens to formally comply with the law and everyone will be able to download the firefox “on their own responsibility”
like when eu banned the classic lightbulbs, there was a discussion in my country because some idiots felt that “the dictatorship of eu is upon them again”
now these lightbulbs are being sold with the notice “for industrial use only, unsuitable for use in personal homes”. every normal person buys led-bulbs and few thousand idiots are happy thinking how they showed them! 😆
Actally about those lightbulbs they are used if you are a machienist because most led lights tends to flicker which could cause stroboscope effect on fast moving parts and sometimes could present effect that something looks like is moving slower or in different direction that is really moving which could be dangerous. But there are also special machienist led bulbs but are more expensive than normal led bulbs. I am not a profesional machienist so sorry if i didnt describe it correctly but my point is that leds (if are not designed for machienist) are not safe in that particular usecase
Honestly I am mildly curious about this, but I am feeling a little too drunk and lazy at this point in my day to look it up and the linked article was not helpful. Can someone eli5 what has the French government so salty? Thanks in advance, -Cas
It’s about censorship and control of the internet. The French government is looking for another way to block things, beyond ISPs.
I forgot to say this at the time, but thanks for the response. You helped me to understand the issue.
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.
If you are technical enough to change your DNS server, you are technical enough to circumvent that
ISP level blocking of traffic?
You can block IP addresses on ISP level.
We can argue about VPNs then, but that’s not how Internet should work, right?
Single IP can host multiple websites. You really want to block half the internet?
