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> Why aren't people banding together and complain about it in an organized manner? Because the notion of collective organizing has been completely eroded and s
by aseipp 6y ago
> Why aren't people banding together and complain about it in an organized manner?
Because the notion of collective organizing has been completely eroded and squeezed out of modern society at every level and replaced with "consumer choice". Is this supposed to be a difficult question or a rhetorical one? I'm not being factitious, that's the actual answer and it's very easy to observe if you look around. (If you check your watch I'm sure it's only a matter of time until someone here literally replies telling you to get a new ISP, in fact.)
That said, even beyond the need for collective organizing of regulation for cases like ISPs, it's been like a decade since Firesheep made waves over the internet because it turns out just being able to snoop passwords at Starbucks was in fact, not good, and actually was quite bad. So it's not like ISPs are the only unscrupulous actors out there, and unless you want to get into the realms of "This software is illegal to possess" (normally a pretty hot-button topic here) then someone has to deal, in this case. The whole pathway between a user and their destination is, by design, insecure; combine that with the fact the internet is practically a wild west, and you have a somewhat different problem.
Making system administrators adopt TLS en masse was probably the right course of action anyway, all things considered, and happens to help neutralize an array of problems here, even if you regulated ISPs and punished them excessively for hijinks like content manipulation (which I would wholeheartedly love to see, honestly.)
(The other histrionics about "simplicity" of HTTP/2 or text vs binary whatever are all masturbatory red herrings IMO so I'm just ignoring them)