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While I don’t necessarily agree with all the points in this article (it takes only a little more effort to make a site https rather than http), I do think compa
by aodonnell2536 3y ago
While I don’t necessarily agree with all the points in this article (it takes only a little more effort to make a site https rather than http), I do think comparing the complete deprecation of http to a wide scale book burning is on the nose.
As the author said, many old http sites that have been on the web for more than a decade are rarely maintained, if at all. Removing access to these sites in totality would definitely take a large percentage of them offline for good. This should be avoided.
- josephcsible 3y agoIf a Web server hasn't had any maintenance done to it since before the dawn of HTTPS, then it's probably since been hacked and defaced anyway.
- pixl97 3y agoI think of the internet more like a public highway and not a library. Things on the road must be maintained as to not be a danger to others.
- aodonnell2536 3y agoWholeheartedly disagree. People should be responsible for their own safety and well-being, and the internet is inarguably a global public library. Your argument is also adjacent, if not identical, to pro-censorship dogma, which I am against.
- pixl97 3y ago"Oh crap, the library is DDOSing me... AGAIN!" Said no one.
- aodonnell2536 3y agoPlease elaborate on how the Internet is not a de facto public library
- pixl97 3y agoYou're asking the wrong question... If I want to the public library and the fire extinguishers didn't work the fire marshal would put a lock on the door. If the shelves fell over and smashed the patrons they'd be sued out of existence. Just because something is 'public' and/or a 'library' doesn't mean there isn't a necessity of upkeep to ensure it's not a danger to others.
- aodonnell2536 3y ago> I think of the internet more like a public highway and not a library. I think I asked a reasonable question. I would argue that locking the doors on a library for non-working fire extinguishers is an overreaction and fairly authoritarian. If there was a sign on the entrance that told library-goers that there are no currently working fire extinguishers and to use their own judgment on whether or not to enter the building, what’s the harm in that? The vast majority would walk out unscathed with a book in their hand.
- jeroenhd 3y agoI've enabled HTTPS mode in my browsers to prevent data leaks. You get a big, scary warning if you open an HTTP website but you can still continue. I'm pretty sure this is the direction websites are going. HTTP isn't going away, but users will start getting more explicit warnings in the coming years.
- aodonnell2536 3y agoI think this is a very reasonable middle ground so long as the setting is readily changeable and exceptions are easy to add.