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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 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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[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. If you give in to laws like these you have already lost; people will just accept their freedom being stripped away piece by piece, and government control of software will be the new normal. If on the other hand we reach a point where Firefox is illegal in France, it should be obvious to anyone and especially those involved in competition law that something is not right.

France is on a bad spree lately, and honestly they need all the bad publicity they can get. I hope this backfires for them.