The French government's approach to modern tech is similar to the UK and Germany in some ways. They seem to be advised by a bunch of decrepit dudes who stopped learning about computers before the OSI model was created.
I suspect its more like "dudes who know nothing about computers (let alone the OSI model)" coming up with dumb ideas. These ideas are all approved and encouraged by advisors under the influence of Big Tech interests, which are more than happy to achieve regulatory capture [0] to protect their proprietary and closed consumer products from consumer-orientated FOSS projects, by making it harder (or even impossible) for these to even operate on a fully free capacity.
I appreciate their stance as well, but I don't think it should be surprising. There's a real cost to updating WhatsApp to meet those requirements, and I think Meta's belief is that MPs will cave instead of taking the heat for banning WhatsApp.
If users really cared about privacy they'd use open source software instead of WhatsApp anyway. I doubt the removal or compromised e2e encryption would make much of a dent in user numbers. One thing I've come to realise is most people want privacy for themselves, but not for others.
Is the UK government really caring about the children or do they just want more convenient power.
If the citizens really cared about the future of their children they would not have elected a government that is a stinking pile of poop.
One thing you should also have come to realise is that most politicians want surveillance power for themselves, but not for others.
As always, I find myself unsure how many actively voted for the Eton Mess vs how many voted to keep out Socialist Santaclaus and his Singing Elves.
Both have been (de facto) kicked out of their respective parties since the last election, which says something about the terrible state of UK politics.
I thought that by "Eton Mess", you meant to include Rishi Sunak and David Cameron. The former is the leader of the Tories, and I'm not aware that Csameron is (de facto) no longer a Tory.
What did you mean?
I think the UK government’s blind eye toward well-known and acknowledged instances of organized child molestation shows they don’t care. About that.
FPTP makes it more likely than with other democratic election methods that all your choices are different varieties of stinking pile of poop.
Meta and the like absolutely do not fundamentally support privacy. Their entire business model depends on users not having privacy.
But Meta and the like does support privacy protections from entities that aren't them.
If the blocking is done client-side, there's plenty of ways to bypass it, like just not updating your browser, duh. Or patching it, or installing extensions that neutralize the blocking mechanism, or fooling it into thinking you're in another country. Even if the blocking done via DNS, it's trivially bypassable by using a DNS provider that offers encryption. Russian approach, though, is to use deep packet inspection equipment (that doesn't implement the TCP spec, lol) to actively mess with people's connections to "forbidden" resources.
How to make this technically effective so that you really need a bit of criminal energy to bypass it is however questionable. At least in Germany I can actually as a user disregard any copyright for books etc if someone in the world offers content without any effective protection or obviously illegal (also resharing like in the BitTorrent case get you into trouble). So what are the alternatives? Pushing DRM ?
I would like to see a bit more constructive approach from mozilla. If you are the French and you see a problem. How would you solve it?
[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser...
Isn't that the same law that understands and bans cloud providers egress fees? Seems they have a good understanding of current state of technology, citing credible sources like Cloudflare.
https://www-senat-fr.translate.goog/rap/l22-777/l22-77720.ht...
The opposition in France are far from being angels, it's very similar to Democrats vs Republican situation in France (except Gauche vs Droite).
Checks and balances that get eroded during populist waves, stay that way when the monster comes.
Yup this one in France is really a big problem. The public sector spendings officially represents something like 58.1% of the french GDP (official "Insee" numbers from 2023, for 2022)... France is not far from a planned economy and, unsurprisingly, it's a particularly harsh environment for real small private SMEs (i.e. those without friends at the state) and for entrepreneurs, for they're getting trounced by taxes.
And that gigantic state (percentage wise of the GDP, not on the world stage) still cannot prevent days of riots and drug-dealers from ruling the streets (like in the city of Marseille).
A deeply corrupt state where public servants are planted so that taxes can grow and, in return, the people don't even get safe streets.
But all is fine and well for these corrupt politicians because soon they'll be able to prevent comments such as yours or mine from being read by anyone.
Ofcourse for the rest of Europe this is a good thing- French military ambitions have been consistently sabotaged by this oversight. Good military, brilliant engineers and capable bureaucrats but terrible merchants. And wars are won on the stock market.
For the kings sure… for the people much less.
Imagine england being defeated and india being free of colonialism.
But I understand that the anglosaxon history might be a bit biased and edited.
For one thing, France is and remains one of the richest countries in the world. For a second thing, I seem to remember that France is currently outperforming both Germany and the UK (I read this in both German and British newspapers, but I don't remember the details).
Is it perfect? Far from it. But French bashing feels pretty counter-productive.
The US has Detroid, LA gangs, SF with the streets filled with homeless people...
Marseille's worst neighborhoods are really chill compared to the bad parts of any American city.
The streets are pretty safe.
Your comment is kinda ridiculous, stop watching TV.
Yeah there are lot of taxes, but those taxes come in handy when you can get 2 years of unemployment benefits when starting a company. Or when you know, get a cancer that would cost a few millions to treat.
Of course, France is striving to import a more retarded and dangerous populace as quickly as possible, so who knows who will win that contest.
I have no knowledge of the worst American cities, but saying that Marseille's worst neighborhoods are "chill" and "The streets are pretty safe" is pure madness.
There are dozens of worst places around SF, LA, NYC, Chicago. There are no crackheads in Marseille. 100x less guns than in any American city.
And even with that, I would be safer if I kept a low profile with my head down and by not getting into troubles and by avoiding some taverns. Try that at the worst places of any big city in the US.
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/08/17/a-marseill...
Same in Germany as well. The country long stopped caring for its people and mainly operates as a vehicle for german industrial interests to make money.
>There're a bunch of corrupted inviduals with no counter power to keep them in check.
The guillotine has proven this to be incorect. Separating their heads from their bodies helps keep rulers unable to perform further acts of corruption.