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[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill)
(imgur.com)
This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France ✊
Here is the email;
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.
Then ban open source browsers, duh...
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.