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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe this is a stupid question, but how does France have jurisdiction to force features into a web browser made by an American company?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are free to try and compel them and Mozilla would be free to stop operating in France.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does "stop operating in France" even mean? It's not like they are selling their browser to the French people...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

France would probably block Mozilla's website

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's trivially easy for people to get around though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And then when in France, I can simply use some other open source browser. This kind of shows how dumb politicians are. Next up? You shouldn't be able to access dangerous software like GitHub, let's block that!