In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments that will easily negate the existence of censorship circumvention tools.

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[–] 31 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

In French we have an expression "la route de l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intention".

I guess in english its " the hell's road is made with good intentions"

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    We have the same saying in English:

    The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions.

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