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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 years ago by BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

But like, can't they just download the non France version of Firefox? Isn't it open source? People can just build their own, right?

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah.

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[–] nitneroc@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Yes but 90% of the people using Firefox won't bother or notice. I already struggle trying to make all my relatives switch to Firefox, I can't imagine getting them to download a specific version or build it themselves...

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[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 points 3 years ago

But the same applies for the other workarounds mentioned doesn't it?

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago

You should just build one yourself, put it on a disc or flash drive and install it for them.

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