So what about things like cURL, wget, Invoke-Webrequest, straight up nc calls. Where does the line exist?

As Mozilla points out, there are numerous safe browsing systems to which you can opt in — opting in being the key here — and there's nothing preventing any entity, the French government included, from creating their own software, browser extension, or DNS service for anti-fraud purposes. They don't need legislation for that, but they do need laws to force software providers to implement a non-optional, government-operated blacklist of "no-no" sites they deem unacceptable for any reason they see fit; it will absolutely not be limited to fraud alone.

France's proposal is so stupefyingly contrived, it's so obvious this is the true intention.

When did France's government get taken over by US Republicans?

Signed!

Edge got a shitstorm for in-browser self ads on the chrome page, now in-browser censoring? The internet bows down to EU, sure, but one nosy country? If at all the official download links for France would be laced, but not anywhere else i.e. its gonna be yet another joykiller for normies, like.. even the thought of maintainers pushing another release specificially for a country is laughable. That's my assessment anyways. Signed

Well, they've heard people can use a VPN to bypass the current blocking (which is done by the ISP, usually through the DNS server) so they are looking for alternatives. It's only natural.

As far as I know, all governments block websites. What would be more interesting is comparing which one sensors the most.

edit: to be clear, what I mean is: the method used by governments to censor the web is not as important as what is being censored. And I wish there was a simple way to monitor what is censored by each state.

France can fuck off then

Why do they need to petition it? Mozilla is an American corporation, if they just ignore it, can France do anything punitive to them?