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[HN] Will Browsers Be Required by Law to Stop You from Visiting Infringing Sites?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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
[ comments | sourced from HackerNews ]
I'm imagining Firefox creating a clientside file called
government-blocklist.txt, with the understanding of "don't touch this file, you scamp 😉"Or putting the option to disable the blocking in about:config... Or even just the settings page
dump the .txt file to the desktop for easy removal by user
"it was a bug, see it's in our database. Don't worry about the priority being set to 'suggestion'"