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France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it

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France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites

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The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

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

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How would they enforce this on open source projects without companies behind them?
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  They can still go after GitHub and GitLab. Even if they self-host, they could go after their domain registrar.
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    Going after GitHub doesn’t seem viable given that they stood up for YouTube-dl

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