Like the TSA at the airport.

Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do.

Now we’re dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site.

Free, for now.

It’s a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.

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    9 months ago

    Yes, security. We love security now. The argument is well known.

    But now you need permission from an official to have a web site. That’s bad, right?

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      9 months ago

      What? I’ve got all sorts of self hosted websites. Encrypted by HTTPS. No permission needed. If Let’s Encrypt vanished, I’d just switch to self-signing my certificates and using a pinning service.

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        9 months ago

        Doesn’t chrome flag self-signed certificates?

        Ok, I didn’t know that was a thing. Thanks

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      9 months ago

      You should probably be more concerned about DNS than HTTPS. DNS is a point where government censors actually do go after web sites they don’t like.