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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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[–] thecam@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If worse comes to worst, someone can fork Firefox and remove the in-browser censorship. That is the beauty of FOSS.

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the 99% that don't know about less popular options will still be affected

[–] thecam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

True, however it will require some grassroots movement/discussion to make it known.