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> Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list

Why would this ever be done on a browser level? Any nation with internet censoring intentions can already do this by blocking it on an ISP level.

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Browsers often directly provide solutions to go around such blocking (DNS over HTTPS for example, or VPNs or proxies),

The governments cannot go and forbid browsers to do that if they don't have the law to back it.

>Why would this ever be done on a browser level?

Because government says so. Its signaling/actionism for political/power purposes.

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