• Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    How do they propose to enforce this, when browsers are free and open-source and can easily be downloaded from hosts outside of France?

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      1 year ago

      People that propose this kind of stuff always know exactly nothing about how the internet, or technology in general, works.

    • LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee
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      In this case Mozilla likely has staff and contributors working out of France. Chances are they make money from there too. Mozilla would either need to forfeit the above or comply if the law is implemented.

      Enforcement from decent sized economies can often be as simple as having too much economic power to ignore, which often isn’t that high of a threshold.

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        Sure, but again, it’s open-source - couldn’t somebody not legally affiliated with Mozilla offer a version of it from a server outside France with the blocking code removed?

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          Yes - but the vast majority of people are not going to be downloading forks or modified versions of software, they will always get it directly from the source.

          The “default”, so to speak, has a lot of power.

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      They can probably enforce it on the major ones and that will be enough to censor 95% of the population.