China and Iran blocks https (and WMF thinks https is more secure than http when it can be EASILY blocked lol) so people in these countries used wikipedia on http, so some here think that these countries are spying on them by forcing them to use http, but that https block in this countries was NOT to target wikipedia, it was to target social networking sites and american based email sites like yahoo and gmail etc..but now by moving to HTTPS, we have now become a target for those countries......well done..and to add to that, people who used wikipedia in those countries to find the "truth" about whats happening in their country and other regions can no longer do so since its blocked..Well Done again WMF..I asked a few devs on IRC and on the associated VP thread why this was done and the answer seems to be a simple way of saying "To protect Americans" .......didn't know Soviet USA was that bad....really a pathetic move by WMF when this was previously discussed before and thrown out for the sam reasons I mentioned above..
Someone has to be fired for this.
On 6/14/15, Vira Motorko vira.motorko@gmail.com wrote:
Have I understood it correctly, that Wikipedia Zero traffic is free only while through http, and not https?
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