Probably because Winer's post links to this earlier one at the bottom http://this.how/googleAndHttp/ http://this.how/googleAndHttp/ which criticizes Google's

Probably because Winer's post links to this earlier one at the bottom http://this.how/googleAndHttp/ http://this.how/googleAndHttp/ which criticizes Google's support for replacing HTTP with HTTPS. (As someone working on this issue from the opposite side from Dave Winer, I can confirm that Google's support has been incredibly consequential at every moment and at every level in HTTPS adoption.)