Not so open

No one seems to comprehend it from this angle, but this also helps to destroy the open internet:

Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS.

This is being pushed by Google et al. because mandated encryption makes it more difficult for regular users to handle publishing their own sites. Itโ€™s also designed to penalize non-Google ad networks which are much further behind on implementing HTTPS.

If you arenโ€™t looking for where the money is going and why, you are looking in the wrong damn place (which is what most people do most of the time).