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

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  • andrai@feddit.deEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    Websites containing instructions and links to such an illegal browser would also be banned

    • jayandp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      As I said, wack-a-mole. You ban a site, different one pops up, people share links in DMs and other platforms. Sharing that stuff isn’t banned in other countries, so they can’t actually take down anything. Good luck stopping that when you can’t even properly get sites blocked at the DNS/ISP level.

      And this doesn’t even get into VPNs and proxies.

      • andrai@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. It’s not gonna stop people from this community, French or not.

        But the French government if crazy about copyright, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually tried it. Just the insanity alone that you can’t take pictures of Paris at night because the Eiffel Tower lights are copyrighted… xD