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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by raesene9 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:35AM (#20758203)
I'm glad to see the browser developers being proactive to help protect users from this kind of thing.

I'll be very interested to see what happens when it's countries they have more connections to, who start doing this kind of thing.

For example in the UK it seems likely that the Digital Verification Act will require ISPs to block access to pornographic sites that don't comply with the legislation.

Given the rise of DNS over HTTPS, it'll be hard to comply with that requirement without some form of MITM, so if the UK ISPs do that, will Mozilla/Google/MS/Apple also block their certs...

Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by ep103 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:51AM (#20758391)
yes/no/no/no, which will force mozilla to say no.

Do our part, switch to and support firefox.

Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by xg15 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:38PM (#20762676)
> For example in the UK it seems likely that the Digital Verification Act will require ISPs to block access to pornographic sites that don't comply with the legislation.

While there is clearly lots of potential for abuse, this seems to me a discussion where tech companies make things awfully easy for themselves.

Like, what is the supposed process to block a website that should be blocked if browser developers do everything they can to keep the ISP from doing so? (Assuming the hosted is not cooperating)

Or is the opinion really that nothing at all should ever be blocked? No pirated media, no malware, no child porn, no nothing? Then, what gives e.g. Google the right to block apps from their app store?

Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by jcranmer on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:34PM (#20760773)
> Given the rise of DNS over HTTPS, it'll be hard to comply with that requirement without some form of MITM.

Or the ISPs could just set up null routes to those IPs.

Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by xg15 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:40PM (#20762691)
Many of the IPs will likely belong to CDNs or shared hosters, so that would instantly make a larger number of unblocked sites unusable as well.
Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by vbezhenar on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:58PM (#20759059)
They won't dare. UK is not Kazakhstan. They would do it for the better good.
Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by onevu on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:35PM (#20758873)
>I'm glad to see the browser developers being proactive to help protect users from this kind of thing.

Maybe I'm the only one who's not glad that browsers aren't just browsers anymore? Now it could be argued that they are political tools.