HTTPS is becoming increasingly important for every website out there on the internet and even on intranet sites. As HTTPS prevents eavesdropping and MiTM attacks. All major browsers discourage visiting HTTP-only websites and there are multiple initiatives to issue TLS/SSL certificates needed for HTTPS to as many websites as possible..... except to websites based in US-sanctioned countries.
The prime example of excluded from the secure internet due to US sanctions is the DPRK. While the China-based DPRK website Uriminzokkiri has a valid TLS/SSL certificate, all DPRK-based websites such as Naenara, KCNA, Voice of Korea and Rodong Sinmun do not have access to any kind of TLS/SSL certificate.
What do we do? Try to take action via our US-based comrades? Try to start our own CA?
As a techie, I believe automation is good, but it's being utilized against the workers instead of helping the workers. While the moral thing to do as an employer would be keeping an employee who automates and documents tasks, employers with their regular lack of morals usually get rid of the worker to have a worker with a smaller salary study that documentation and continue the same work but with less pay. This "utilize and dispose" strategy only hinders the workers' motivation to document and automate systems.