Everything doesn't need to be private, but we expect it to be, just like we expect letters sent in the mail to be. It's not like Wikipedia is shifting to HTTPS

Everything doesn't need to be private, but we expect it to be, just like we expect letters sent in the mail to be. It's not like Wikipedia is shifting to HTTPS because people reading about the "American Revoltionary War" are going to get flagged for rendition. That HTTP session didn't need to be private. Wikipedia is shifting because they don't want NSA snooping with any of their users' traffic. But if they didn't want NSA snooping then certainly they didn't want ISPs, hackers on the same cable modem loop, etc. snooping, so they could/should have done this switch awhile ago. Even should we change the law to match our expectations regarding Internet privacy, https is still a better idea as the NSA is really the least of worries for the vast majority of us who have bigger threats with organized crime from Eastern Europe, spammers forming botnets, etc.