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

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    1 year ago

    Why forcing the browsers? Couldn’t they just make a law for ISPs to block specific domains?

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    Firefox being free software, it wouldn’t make much sense for them to try and do something like this. So obviously we know that Mozilla would never go along with such an absurd law and start doing censorship on behalf of France. … right, Mozilla? Slightly strange that you didn’t say so?

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    Unfortunately, this is gonna happen and worse. We lost the fight for the internet in 2006, and we’re watching it die. No joke, I started using yandex browser and search since Google ruined theirs, and it is close to perfect. Waterfox is my backup.

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      I wouldn’t recommend using Yandex, due to it’s connections with the Russian government. You should check out privacyguides.org they have a lot of cool info about privacy respecting tools. However I also don’t recommend anything Brave. The company was founded by a homophobe who was previously in charge of Mozilla, but left, because of community pressure.

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        What can the Russian government realistically do to me?

        My government is the one that can ruin my life.

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          Avoid all governmemt infused apps and services. Weather it is foreign or domestic.

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    How the fuck could a law like that possibly be enforceable? Mozilla should just tell them to go fuck themselves, offer alternative IPs so people can get around country-wide DNS blocks, and then go about their day. Who cares what some spineless country wants?

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    If worse comes to worst, someone can fork Firefox and remove the in-browser censorship. That is the beauty of FOSS.

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      Unfortunately the 99% that don’t know about less popular options will still be affected

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        1 year ago

        True, however it will require some grassroots movement/discussion to make it known.

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      Its nothing to do with the right wing and everythiny to do with authoratarianism. Left wing authoratarians hate freedom just as much. They just usually attafk different targets.

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      1 year ago

      Why do right wingers hate freedom so much?

      What? Am I on crazy pills? This has nothing to do with polticial leaning. Its man VS big gov.

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          A globalist leaning. Macron if I recall comes from big money in the financial world. The do not have a leaning poltically, they are amoral, dark triad.