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[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill) (imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France ✊

Here is the email;

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How would you even go about enforcing this? Anyone with even basic skills can write a very simple web browser that just makes http requests and displays the output

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Displaying raw HTML? Sure a fair number of people can pull that off. Actually rendering HTML+CSS with all their many features and a performant JS engine is many orders of magnitude more complex though, which is why there are basically only three browser engines (two if you count Chromium as a WebKit fork)

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chromium is open source. It would be trivial to build it yourself with the block list disabled.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Then ban open source browsers, duh...

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Of course, but the original commentor's claim was that writing a web browser is trivial, not that compiling an existing web browser with some minimal changes is trivial.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

does curl -G qualify as a web browser under this law

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

Anyone with even basic skills can write a very simple web browser that just makes http requests and displays the output

No.

99% of people can't.

Even downloading a special browser that doesn't comply with the limitations would still be inaccessible to most users.

If you think the average citizen can code a browser you are very mistaken.