On Friday, founder Jimmy Wales, along with others, hosted a Red?dit AMA to talk about the lawsuit and other issues. When someone asked him what the perfect internet would look like, Wales s?aid that "a secure internet (encryption everywhere) would be a good start."

Yet, Wikipedia itself is not encrypted by default, despite the ever-increasing calls to encrypt all the things on the internet. Even the White House recently switched to default encryption, and called on the rest of the government to make the transition as well.

It's not just an issue of surveillance. When a website is encrypted by default—meaning all its content is served over the more secure HTTPS protocol—censorship-happy countries like China and Iran can't do selective blocking of Wikipedia pages without blocking the whole site.