Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.
How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn’t account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.
It’s as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.
Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you apt get install x from within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?
How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn’t account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.
How would you get a browser without a browser though? Memorize the ff download link and wget it perhaps?
It’s as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.
Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you
apt get install xfrom within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?