cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/[email protected]/t/57607
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
Honestly I am mildly curious about this, but I am feeling a little too drunk and lazy at this point in my day to look it up and the linked article was not helpful. Can someone eli5 what has the French government so salty? Thanks in advance, -Cas
It’s about censorship and control of the internet. The French government is looking for another way to block things, beyond ISPs.
I forgot to say this at the time, but thanks for the response. You helped me to understand the issue.
Idk does France government knows that they can block addresses on ISP level but anyway, I’m not France government.
On ISP level? Only with DNS blocking. Which is pointless since you can simply change the DNS server to some non-ISP one. That’s probably why they want to force this stupidity onto browsers. Which is even more stupid and pointless.
If you are technical enough to change your DNS server, you are technical enough to circumvent that
ISP level blocking of traffic?
You can block IP addresses on ISP level.
We can argue about VPNs then, but that’s not how Internet should work, right?
Single IP can host multiple websites. You really want to block half the internet?
What happened to telling governments to go fuck themselves? I remember when it was on the governments to police their citizens and if software violated their laws it was on the government to stop citizens accessing it. Why can they just not comply?
I mean obviously we can do both right? We can both fight stupid laws so they never get passed in the first place and then refuse to comply with them if they do.
