France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet – Open Policy & Advocacy
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Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.
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Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If they implement the site blocking, someone will fork the browser and remove the blocking from it.

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You don’t even need to do that though. It would be the “fork” that contains the blocking, surely.

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