The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
Ok, if you want some info here is a little summary :
- Banning people condamned for bullying/hate speech from every social media they used for it
- Blocking websites (mostly porn) without judge’s approval, both physically and by forcing navigators/DNS to block it
- More ID checking to “protect minor”
And if you want details :
The current proposition of law is a melting pot of many Internet security subjects :
- preventing children to access porn
- punishing websites that host pedo porn harder
- punishing deepfake and ai generated montage (and montages in general)
- preventing hate speech and violent speech in all social media, including chat applications
- regulating the market of cloud storage providers
- regulating gambling and real-money video games
- preventing phishing
They have different actions at their disposal :
- Fines for website admins who do not comply
- Forcing websites to check people’s identity to prevent minor accessing harming content
- Forcing websites to ban some accounts suspected of illegal activity
- Forcing websites to try and block a suspected person (not the user) from using/creating any accounts on their website (for max. 6 months to 1 year)
- Forcing navigators, DNS providers and Internet compagnies to block any access to a specific domain for max 3 months, if this domain does not comply in (short) time to the administration instructions
- Forcing websites to mention the name and adress of any person or company that host their content
- Forcing apps markets to remove an app that does not comply to the administration instructions
- It would be mandatory for vpn ads to always display a message that says something like “Pirating contents harms artistic creation” (does not have a lot to do with the rest, but it find it interesting anyway)
- It would be mandatory for any content sharing website to stock datas enabling the identification of anyone who participated in the content creation
- Easier police raid in places where content is hosted (no judge approval needed, they just get notified of the raid)
Now, i did not hear from this subject a lot, mostly for the pornography part since we probably soon will have to show ID cards to watch porn. I remember that everytime there are more or less violent protests, government says it originates from social media and that they have to control social media to prevent violences. Most politicians i heard on this seem to not fully understand what is at stake, which is kinda usual.