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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites(foundation.mozilla.org)

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The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

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Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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But like, can’t they just download the non France version of Firefox? Isn’t it open source? People can just build their own, right?

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RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
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Yeah.

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nitneroc@lemmy.one
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Yes but 90% of the people using Firefox won’t bother or notice. I already struggle trying to make all my relatives switch to Firefox, I can’t imagine getting them to download a specific version or build it themselves…

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ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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But the same applies for the other workarounds mentioned doesn’t it?

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pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
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You should just build one yourself, put it on a disc or flash drive and install it for them.

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