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[โ€“] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As Mozilla points out, there are numerous safe browsing systems to which you can opt in โ€” opting in being the key here โ€” and there's nothing preventing any entity, the French government included, from creating their own software, browser extension, or DNS service for anti-fraud purposes. They don't need legislation for that, but they do need laws to force software providers to implement a non-optional, government-operated blacklist of "no-no" sites they deem unacceptable for any reason they see fit; it will absolutely not be limited to fraud alone.

France's proposal is so stupefyingly contrived, it's so obvious this is the true intention.

[โ€“] bouh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What's even more evil is that we already have dns filtering for isp. Somehow, by making this new law they are acknowledging the old one was stupidly ineffective.