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Re:Some observations on the final text of the European Digit... by lmm on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:07PM (#38441811)
> If e.g. Google were to start censoring news.ycombinator.com by blocklisting its CAs, I could switch browsers to view it anyway.

You could if it got to that point, but the CA would almost certainly "voluntarily" stop issuing certificates to news.ycombinator.com rather than face the risk of being blocklisted, and there's no way for you to opt out of that.

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Re:Some observations on the final text of the European Digit... by Vinnl on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @08:47AM (#38445620)
Hmm yeah that's a good point, not much you can do about that as a user.
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