[wampus]

The move to deprecate HTTP is solely inspired by the need to authenticate online communication. It's necessary to protect speech on the web, because it makes it harder to tamper with the content in transit. Your ISP shouldn't be able to inject ads into a web page, a WiFi access point shouldn't be able to change every "do" to "do not", and a passive listener shouldn't be able to collect information about you for his own gain. SSL/TLS is a huge mess and the current CA situation is abysmal, but authentication needs to happen now, or there will be no privacy or freedom on the Internet.

[manigandham]

There's plenty of privacy and freedom on the internet... otherwise the internet would not have existed this long the way it has. More security is always better but let's please stop with hyperbole.

[Touche]

We can't have an intelligent conversation if you're going to suggest that free speech doesn't currently, and hasn't always happened on the web.