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Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: France Loses Its Marbles On Internet Censorship (hackaday.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mrwiggles@prime8s.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://prime8s.xyz/post/17896

The article points out that not even China goes as far as the new French censorship law to embed spyware in webbrowsers. Spoopy

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[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 62 points 10 months ago

Seems appropriate

[-] Aelis@beehaw.org 44 points 10 months ago

I swear, I live in France and I only discovered this on lemmy, this is insane..

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 30 points 10 months ago

Not much of a surprise that it's being done quietly. It's the same with the EU "chat control" legislation, nobody really seems to know about it and if passed it'll have serious consequences for the privacy of everyone in the EU

[-] Aelis@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Wtf I missed that too !

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Spread the word

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

It's a little French-bashing is all. I live in France and haven't heard a peep about it, even from places like LQDN or Drama.

Article 6 of SREN states that France will follow European law 2022/1925:

Browsers will be informed of illegal website urls via a reporting mechanism blah blah blah

Mozilla is pushing against this. They started a petition and now every tech journalist is writing something about it.

I think this is up to date here https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/textes/l16b1514_projet-loi#D_Article_6

Bonne lecture

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 11 points 10 months ago

This tendency towards authoritarianism has been going on for years in France. At least since 2007. And it shows no signs of stopping or slowing down.

[-] alcyoneous@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

It’s definitely seems to have accelerated under Macron in the past few years though…

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure if it's accelerated or if they just don't hide it anymore, just like corruption. But it's going to be terrible, will get worse and then 2027 happens, which is most likely going to put LePen or other dumb fuck (proto-)fascists in power (like Darmanin or Macron's cronies). And they will have a field day with all the shit that has been set up in the past decades.

[-] alcyoneous@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe a little bit of both! And fuck I hope LePen and her ilk never get anywhere near the presidency, but with the way things are going that seems unlikely. But who knows, things could change before then…