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French Gov Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly into Web Browsers (torrentfreak.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing, it's stupid unenforceble law proposal. They expect companies to come up with a solution to their created problem, but browser companies have no incentive to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always found it fascinating how some governments will just throw the ball to the companies like.... figure it out I guess? I was talking to a friend about how some states on the US ,now require an ID to get into pornhub. (Although that's is 1st a breach of privacy and 2nd a logistical nightmare) so what did pornhub did? Just block access from those states. And while that's great news for VPN companies. It actually defeats the purpose of the legislation. Now they have even less control. Because small pages that will not follow rules like PH will be more insecure and prolific