[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill)
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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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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
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)
Chromium is open source. It would be trivial to build it yourself with the block list disabled.
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.
does curl -G qualify as a web browser under this law
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.