• @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      Either rioting in the streets or widespread adoption of some open-source niche browser. Or both.

      (If this passes, it’s either going to go unenforced or hit massive legal challenges—not a lawyer, but I think it’s incompatible with freedom of association, which appears to be a legal right in France.)

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        French person here. If their previous attempts at creating anything digital are any indication of the future we are in for a fun ride. I fully expect them to implement the blocking by hiding the page behind a black png.

      • So then would their access to the internet be french toast? Also, a governmyth designed browser, and we thought internet explorer was bad

    • @CmdrShepard
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      How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn’t account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.

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          That’s a good question but I imagine it would be like when you have a fresh windows install and use Edge to download Firefox or Chrome but instead you’d get them from an unofficial source or with a VPN connected to a different country.

            • @CmdrShepard
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              Well in the case of Windows, the browser is integral to the OS so they couldn’t/wouldn’t ship it without one. Even if that is a restricted browser, there should be a not too difficult way to use it to download an unrestricted browser.

        • @dogmuffins@lemmy.ml
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          It’s as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.

          Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you apt get install x from within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?

  • @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    51 year ago

    Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If they implement the site blocking, someone will fork the browser and remove the blocking from it.

    • @dogmuffins@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

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

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    Is that even feasible? I mean wouldn’t there instantly be dozens of chromium and firefox forks with the list redirected or removed?

  • @steph@lemmy.clueware.org
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    51 year ago

    Yet again an example of (for some, not-so) old, control-freak farts that just don’t understand the world they live in. The law proposal is entitled “Regulation of digital space”. As if a country could regulate an international network.

    Sometimes I’m really ashamed of our politicians.

    • @erwan@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

      Yes it’s possible to create a Great Firewall around your country, just look at China.

      I just really hope France isn’t going in that direction.