> Security is not the only priority in existence. Sometimes people just want to access the information. And when that is the case, HTTPS can be a huge impediment.
I suppose you'd be fine if your government started replacing the content of Wikipedia with their own propaganda/removing critical information about themselves from traffic?
how? Edits on Wikipedia are public, including historical monthly backups available over bt all the way back to 2006, and I can ensure Wikipedia servers are serving it correctly by cross-referencing that and the edits. With http, any ISP (whose operators all tend to favor government cooperation) or switch in the middle could sed content to remove or slightly alter known-critical content.
I suppose you'd be fine if your government started replacing the content of Wikipedia with their own propaganda/removing critical information about themselves from traffic?