The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have recognized. Requiring Internet companies to redesign and reconfigure their systems to facilitate government surveillance of Americans’ expressive activities is simply un-American.

2014-08-19: HTTP shaming. If appstore “reviews” were actually serious they’d block http apps.
2014-12-14: The civil war of our time. Another shot being fired: Proposal: Marking HTTP As Non-Secure

The attacks on fundamental freedoms to communicate that are represented by various government repression of the Internet around the world, and in the US by hypocritical legislation like PROTECT IP and SOPA (E-PARASITE), are fundamentally fascist in nature, despite between wrapped in their various flags of national security, anti-piracy profit protection, motherhood, and apple pie. Anyone or anything that is an enabler of communications not willingly conforming to this model are subject to attack by authorities from a variety of levels — with the targets ranging from individuals like you and me, to unbiased enablers of organic knowledge availability like Google. For all the patriotic frosting, the attacks on the Internet are really attacks on what has become popularly known as the 99%, deployed by the 1% powers who are used to having their own way and claiming the largest chunks of the pie, regardless of how many ants (that’s us!) are stomped in the process.

2015-01-28: Amen. 2015 will be less forgettable if we can kill off most HTTP sites.

New favorite Chrome Canary flag: chrome://flags/#mark-non-secure-as … non-secure! The way it should have been from the start.