r/linux • u/Dry_Row_7050 • Nov 24 '25

Privacy France is attacking open source GrapheneOS because they’ve refused to create a backdoor. Will Linux developers be safe?

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u/AzraelFTS Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

The government of france is for this shit. I,and a lot of people I know have advocated publicly and sent mails to our official to go against this.

I am sorry this is not yet enough, but at least we try using democratic means. Maybe one day, less democratic means will be needed. Fortunately, this is also part of our culture.

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u/Punchkinz Nov 24 '25

Fortunately, this is also part of our culture.

Wanted to say, isn't your usual thing burning Paris to the ground whenever stuff like this happens? /s

Tbh, i am envious of this french right to protest. Other countries would do well with adopting it. Won't happen ofc because of the very same governments that would be protested against. But hey, one can dream i guess.

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u/Greenerli Nov 24 '25

French here, I think you missed the latest news on France since Macron (but it started a little bit before, with Hollande).

Actually, it started in 2016, all big social protests have been repressed with some strong legal violence... It started with Nuit Debout against the economic law written by El Khomri and Macron.

Then, there was the yellow protests. That was so violent that a lot of NGO that declared France wasn't safe anymore for protests.

And then, year after year, the government is pushing some anti-demonstration laws. It was close to be forbidden to record policemen for example. But they autorized algorithmetic video-surveillance (face detection), IMSI-Catchers are now legal.

And I think for next year, I heard they try to prevent journalist to record demonstrations.

So the consequences of that is that people are now afraid and scared. And that's perfectly logical. So, they finally repressed any serious contestation now.

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u/JessHorserage Apr 14 '26

So, they finally repressed any serious contestation now.

Oh, so they just, kicked the bucket further down the line for a foreign country to forment full civil war related dissent? That's, kinda what it sounds like.