I'm not 100% certain I understand your position, so I'll attempt to restate it in my own words. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The TLS requirement in HTTP 2.0 is objectionable on the grounds that it makes filtering/monitoring difficult or impossible. This is a problem because in some places the filtering/monitoring is legally mandated and in some others merely legal. It would also aid these intermediaries if the opening stanza of the HTTP request were sent unencrypted.
To that, I disagree. On a practical level, many sites are already encrypted with TLS, especially the $BIGSITEs, so intermediaries that want to MITM their subordinates already must compromise their hosts. No browser is likely to ship an update that would regress on the privacy guarantees of traffic on the wire in this way.
On an ideological level I believe that it is better to err on the side of making information available to those who want it rather than empowering those who wish to censor and monitor access of information. I would also add that the RFCs issued by the IETF have historically been ideologically aligned with free and unimpeded access to information, and have more frequently treated censorship and monitoring as attacks to defend against rather than use cases to fulfill.
To that, I disagree. On a practical level, many sites are already encrypted with TLS, especially the $BIGSITEs, so intermediaries that want to MITM their subordinates already must compromise their hosts. No browser is likely to ship an update that would regress on the privacy guarantees of traffic on the wire in this way.
On an ideological level I believe that it is better to err on the side of making information available to those who want it rather than empowering those who wish to censor and monitor access of information. I would also add that the RFCs issued by the IETF have historically been ideologically aligned with free and unimpeded access to information, and have more frequently treated censorship and monitoring as attacks to defend against rather than use cases to fulfill.