France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨le_pouffre_bleu@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/

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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Mannimarco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Well intentioned” my pasty white ass it’s well intentioned, they know exactly what they are doing. Fuck these people

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kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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.

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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.
- JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  yeah cause thats bullshit. no biggie, but I had a 36.6kbps modem. its nice to be elite
  
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le_pouffre_bleu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Right now in the EU :

EU’s Draconian Social Media Censorship Laws Are Now Officially Enforceable

EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters

Right now in France :

Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case

We have had access to certain elements of the file confirming this information. We have chosen to make them visible in order to denounce the criminalisation of digital practices at the heart of our day-to-day work and the manipulation to which they are subjected in this affair.

Mixing fantasies, bad faith and technical incompetence, a police story has been constructed around the (good) digital practices of the accused, with the aim of staging a “clandestine” or “conspirative” group.

The elements of the investigation that have been communicated to us are staggering. Here are just some of the practices that are being misused as evidence of terrorist behavior6: – the use of applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Wire, Silence or ProtonMail to encrypt communications ; – using Internet privacy tools such as VPN, Tor or Tails7 ; – protecting ourselves against the exploitation of our personal data by GAFAM via services such as /e/OS, LineageOS, F-Droid ; – encrypting digital media; – organizing and participating in digital hygiene training sessions; – simple possession of technical documentation.

France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones

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smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just Internet? Browsers are client side software. It’s a Sanger to open computing in general.

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- Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ll just keep living in my third world country where they are too stupid or poor to enact these dystopian policies

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- Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh don’t worry, they’ll reach you wether you like it or not
  
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