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Re:Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefo... by heretohelp232 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:51PM (#37164558)
I can confirm.

The French government censors websites by forcing ISPs to delist stuff from their DNS servers. It's trivial to bypass simply by setting alternative DNS providers like Cloudflare.

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Re:Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefo... by bleuarff on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:24PM (#37165935)
And not even all ISPs, only the few most popular ones. Even if that's probably 96% of internet users, that looks like the law does not treat all citizens equally.
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