That seems pretty unlikely to be the original point of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549415, which mentio

That seems pretty unlikely to be the original point of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549415, which mentions none of that, and doesn't even have directionally the same concerns. But also, what you wrote is basically nonsense. Clients don't need "an approved cert authority". Nor are there any "approved gatekeepers", all major browsers are equally happy connecting to your Raspberry Pi as they are connecting to Cloudflare.