In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability.
This move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments that will easily negate the existence of censorship circumvention tools.
On the one hand, the French discovered that snails are edible. That takes some guts.
On the other hand, there was their play during WW2, their notorious love for the resurgence of neofascism, and now this.
I wonder how many more screwups before some guillotines are in order.
Seems a bit disjointed to bundle all those things with browser privacy laws.
motherfucker didn’t even mention cheese
To be fair, cheese being edible is now pretty much worldwide accepted, like pineapple on pizza, and it wasn’t even really “weird” back at the time. Snails on the other hand…