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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 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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

What about HTTP client libraries for every computer language? Even if they went as far as to ban curl and lynx, with many languages you could whip up an HTTP client to pull whatever content you need in five minutes. This might be totally unenforceable at that level as people could modify the library or write code themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I guess you could argue that a simple http client is not a browser, so these would be excluded. But if you write code yourself to use an http client to make a browser, then you would have to implement Frances's bullshit to be legal in France.

    But that depends on how you legally distinguish between a simple http client and a browser...

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