This is NOT political. Google and Chrome have been making the move for several years. During the summer they started flagging non-secure and now, apparently going further. Sites that are not secure, using SSL or HTTPS as you see it in the URL or notice next to the URL in most browsers, are suspect for phishing, reading content, scrapping data, passwords, etc. It is simply going to be harder and harder to access non-secure sites as they are the most suspect from a security perspective. This has nothing to do with content.
Do a search for SSL and HTTPS warnings in browsers. Lots of notices and discussions.