Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.
I bet Syria, Iran, and every other authoritarian regime in the world is salivating at this proposal.
It would make it so much simpler to block the communications of the people protesting your government. Or effectively delete your political rivals from being seen on the internet.
This tool would get used for so much worse than it’ll protect people from.
I bet Syria, Iran, and every other authoritarian regime in the world is salivating at this proposal.
It would make it so much simpler to block the communications of the people protesting your government. Or effectively delete your political rivals from being seen on the internet.
This tool would get used for so much worse than it’ll protect people from.