If I owned a browser company, I would just pull my browser from France. Much easier than having to make a separate version just for one country.

What kind of authoritarian power move is this? Lol

No one else read the article before commenting??

It’s a pretty typical government stuff-up. People with zero technical understanding thinking they can write legislation about technology to solve a tech related problem problem. These things are basically always scrapped or watered-down before they’re even voted on, once politicians start talking to the people in the government who actually have some technical understanding.

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.