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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 11 months ago by BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Firefox being free software, it wouldn't make much sense for them to try and do something like this. So obviously we know that Mozilla would never go along with such an absurd law and start doing censorship on behalf of France. ... right, Mozilla? Slightly strange that you didn't say so?

[–] sourcery@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

As always I am reminded that governments are run by the tech illiterate.