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France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Why do they need to petition it? Mozilla is an American corporation, if they just ignore it, can France do anything punitive to them?
They could have the ISPs block Mozilla web presence I suppose.
I'm in favor (as a french). This would give one more reason for people to be angry. And they need to be.
With the market share Firefox has it would be a drop in the ocean
Ypu underestimate how angry we get for this kind of things
We got pretty angry at that retirement age shit, which has arguably more reach. Still got written into law...
Do you think that feeling got away? It didn't. People are still angry and more censorship would help them stand again
ISPs in France, sure. They would have to convince ISPs elsewhere in the world to do it, and it wouldn't be a popular move if ISPs start letting foreign governments censor stuff. Would the ISPs decide the bad press is worth making the French government happy, is the question.
Sorry I wasnโt intending to imply that isps out of France would comply, just that getting the French ones to block Mozilla would prevent the vast majority of the country from accessing their browser (at current level of technical acuity).