If they consider the country is making laws they can't accept, then the honourable thing is to no longer allow participation within that country.
More importantly this is the smart choice, the only thing, to do: Shake the dust from your sandals, walk away, don't look back.
This is the ongoing horror of the overbearing state, which wants to rule efficiently by knowing everything that everybody is doing all the time. Those who focus on and value law enforcement before freedom.
What? What is the French state doing in this case?
People can write politically motivated things on HN too. That is very different than a law enforcement action of the government.
> People can write politically motivated things on HN too.
Sure, and that would be a problem if that was 1) targeted and 2) originated from the people with connections.
A foreign country can only threaten you if you depend on revenue from this country, or plan to go there. In theory one can even pull of a project like GrapheneOS completely anonymously (assuming you're in a proper free speech jurisdiction that won't rat you out), so people behind it can still travel freely.
French citizens deserve privacy no less than anyone else.
They have no obligation to do otherwise. - ~~~~