[zizek23]

The certificate system is broken. Technical people should not be promoting centralization, raising barriers to publishing and empowering middle men. That is not a technical solution, but behavior that favours business and vested interests.

There is now a clear pattern of attempts to raise barriers and cede more control to actors in the middle.

First it was de-legitimizing http, now its standard certs, then it will be 3 years. What's stopping this degenerating into an elaborate 'approval process' from a central authority in a few years which you pay dearly for, all in the name of security?

This kind of control gives some the power and fig leaf of any 'arbritary process' to delegitimize and silence others.