Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites

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

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?

Why forcing the browsers? Couldn't they just make a law for ISPs to block specific domains?

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Why do right wingers hate freedom so much?

"Do you not know my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" 🤷‍♂️

Ok, it's a freedom and free speech nightmare, but are they stupid or something? They are aiming for the browsers instead of ISPs (and DNSes?)?

So things like curl or lynx would be illegal eh? Good luck enforcing those.

I do not like france

Can we sign it even it we don't live in France?

How the fuck could a law like that possibly be enforceable? Mozilla should just tell them to go fuck themselves, offer alternative IPs so people can get around country-wide DNS blocks, and then go about their day. Who cares what some spineless country wants?

Now imagine if something like this would happen after Google manages to DRM the internet? You won't even be able to fork the browser...

If worse comes to worst, someone can fork Firefox and remove the in-browser censorship. That is the beauty of FOSS.

Whelp, I signed in the dumbest way possible. Signed under the name Lupine Arsène. Only thing I regret is not putting the country as France to complete the dumb joke.

Somehow, I don't think ruthless authoritarians are going to care about what the little people think.

Signed. Although I wanted to ask if it has any value if it was signed by someone from outside of France/not French?

Signed. Enough with this kind of bullshit in the EU.

Can someone explain how this is enforceable??

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

completely forgot to credit the one that made me aware of this: @LinuxCat

Signed and shared on Mastodon

Oh yeah, let the government decide on censorship. I see nothing wrong with that. Oh! I know, let's have a point system based on how much they support the governments policies too!

So, what kind of sites does France want to censor? Piracy?

Russian propagandists claim, there is no democracy and no freedom of press in the west. It seems like, they were right in that regard.

And this how the end of a civilization or at least of an era looks like.

The neoliberal system of deregulation of the economy and finance sector, of privatization, of weak states on these topics is crashing right in front of us. It requires now non-democratic, authoritarian, decisions to keep the head outside of the water and not shrinks undersea. The destruction of the environment is a symptom of this end.

A small minority wanted unlimited in a limited world. They wanted to touch the stars and burned their fingers. Like arrogant teenagers, they said it's nothing and let find solutions that are no more than placebos. But, even this now doesn't work anymore. They have to use the authoritarian card, another placebo.

It won't change today. It's a long process which can be accelerated if the population takes the lead. They know this fact. The authoritarian card is here to keep the population quite by restricting the access to the information "for the general good". They want to control this aspect of the life too.

But the monster they created is already out of control. It makes and always made more damage than good. They accelerated the neoliberal agenda to keep it calm but it doesn't work. They are running after it and after their inevitable lost.

Signed Long live Freedom!!!

Posted to 'privacy' community: "Put your first and last name on this petition!"

I expect if there are too many fake names it would be used against them too. I think not signing at all is overall less detrimental my own privacy. However if there's evidence/reasoning otherwise please share!

Edit: I ended up signing with my real name, I don't see employers or anyone holding that petition against me if they find out I signed this by searching my name.

Unfortunately, this is gonna happen and worse. We lost the fight for the internet in 2006, and we're watching it die. No joke, I started using yandex browser and search since Google ruined theirs, and it is close to perfect. Waterfox is my backup.

Why the focus on Firefox? Why not just say “browsers”?