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Could you imagine what would happen if Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc said “okay, you just can’t have a web browser in france”
Either rioting in the streets or widespread adoption of some open-source niche browser. Or both.
(If this passes, it’s either going to go unenforced or hit massive legal challenges—not a lawyer, but I think it’s incompatible with freedom of association, which appears to be a legal right in France.)
The french government will just make their own web browser and we’ll be well on our way to the great firewall of france.
How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn’t account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.
Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If they implement the site blocking, someone will fork the browser and remove the blocking from it.
Is that even feasible? I mean wouldn’t there instantly be dozens of chromium and firefox forks with the list redirected or removed?
Yet again an example of (for some, not-so) old, control-freak farts that just don’t understand the world they live in. The law proposal is entitled “Regulation of digital space”. As if a country could regulate an international network.
Sometimes I’m really ashamed of our politicians.
