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.

I don’t agree that it’s “well-intentioned” at all but the article goes on to point out the potential for abuse by copyright holders.

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/64123

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  •  ThetaDev   ( @ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.net ) English
    41•1 year ago

    The most stupid part of this idea is that is requires a list of banned sites to be served to every user.

    Even if they would use hashing to obfuscate the banned domains, you can download a list of all registered domains and just test every one of them.

    So the average internet user will lose freedom while a cheese pizza enjoyer with some computer knowledge will gain a list of every banned CP site.