Comment by koito17
6 months ago
Most Chinese sites do not use HTTPS. In fact, TLS 1.3 traffic seems to be completely blocked within China's internet.[1] The decision to use plain HTTP is only strange from a Western viewpoint. Note: I am not defending this behavior. I still remember the era of ISPs injecting content into webpages. But it's important to keep in mind our subset of the world does not reflect the rest of the world.
It does reflect the rest of the world; China is the extreme outlier here.
Also, accessing GitHub from within mainland China works, so TLS is not completely banned.