[anon6_]

How is this hypocritical? They'd get the raw request one way or another.

[insoluble]

It's hypocritical because it shows that they don't want random people reading data going to and from their website but yet they advocate that others should accept random snoopers.

[woah]

This is silly. They have no problem with https, as the root CAs are compromised. If you think that ssl is secure against governments, you are wrong.