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.
That’s not a very good solution from a technical standpoint. I mean, there are a bunch of ways to defeat that on the local computer, from modifying the client to disrupting or modifying its communication with the French governments censorship list, not to mention using a non-French browser.
If they’re serious about blocking access to content for French users, it should be happening at the network level, at the edge of the French network.
That’s not a very good solution from a technical standpoint. I mean, there are a bunch of ways to defeat that on the local computer, from modifying the client to disrupting or modifying its communication with the French governments censorship list, not to mention using a non-French browser.
If they’re serious about blocking access to content for French users, it should be happening at the network level, at the edge of the French network.