I have noticed that most of the Chinese country code .cn domains on the internet are still using plaintext HTTP, not HTTPS. Even major Chinese news outlets and somewhat large Chinese companies (the really big ones like Huawei tend to use .com and do use HTTPS) are plaintext. I’m curious, anyone know why this is?
Though I still find it weird that Chinese news outlets like China Daily, which the government presumably has a say in, still does this. Being plaintext makes it impossible to verify that the information you’re getting is actually what’s on the website, which might be even more important than security for a news site.