diff --git a/monitoring/airbrake_deployment b/monitoring/airbrake_deployment
index 55d6017e4ea..89d62deda5e 100644
--- a/monitoring/airbrake_deployment
+++ b/monitoring/airbrake_deployment
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def main():
 
     # Send the data to airbrake
     data = urllib.urlencode(params)
-    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, validate_certs=module.params['validate_certs'])
+    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data)
     if info['status'] == 200:
         module.exit_json(changed=True)
     else:
diff --git a/net_infrastructure/netscaler b/net_infrastructure/netscaler
index 4756d90abdc..2a8881cf56f 100644
--- a/net_infrastructure/netscaler
+++ b/net_infrastructure/netscaler
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class netscaler(object):
             'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
         }
 
-        response, info = fetch_url(self.module, request_url, data=data_json, validate_certs=self.module.params['validate_certs'])
+        response, info = fetch_url(self.module, request_url, data=data_json)
 
         return json.load(response.read())
 
diff --git a/network/get_url b/network/get_url
index c249c44049a..8f0ccb1686d 100644
--- a/network/get_url
+++ b/network/get_url
@@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ def url_filename(url):
         return 'index.html'
     return fn
 
-def url_get(module, url, dest, use_proxy, last_mod_time, force, validate_certs):
+def url_get(module, url, dest, use_proxy, last_mod_time, force):
     """
     Download data from the url and store in a temporary file.
 
     Return (tempfile, info about the request)
     """
 
-    rsp, info = fetch_url(module, url, use_proxy=use_proxy, force=force, last_mod_time=last_mod_time, validate_certs=validate_certs)
+    rsp, info = fetch_url(module, url, use_proxy=use_proxy, force=force, last_mod_time=last_mod_time)
 
     if info['status'] == 304:
         module.exit_json(url=url, dest=dest, changed=False, msg=info.get('msg', ''))
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ def main():
     force = module.params['force']
     sha256sum = module.params['sha256sum']
     use_proxy = module.params['use_proxy']
-    validate_certs = module.params['validate_certs']
 
     dest_is_dir = os.path.isdir(dest)
     last_mod_time = None
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ def main():
         last_mod_time = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(mtime)
 
     # download to tmpsrc
-    tmpsrc, info = url_get(module, url, dest, use_proxy, last_mod_time, force, validate_certs)
+    tmpsrc, info = url_get(module, url, dest, use_proxy, last_mod_time, force)
 
     # Now the request has completed, we can finally generate the final
     # destination file name from the info dict.
diff --git a/packaging/apt_key b/packaging/apt_key
index ff05bb93d1a..48442349ae1 100644
--- a/packaging/apt_key
+++ b/packaging/apt_key
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def download_key(module, url):
     if url is None:
         module.fail_json(msg="needed a URL but was not specified")
     try:
-        rsp, info = fetch_url(module, url, validate_certs=module.params['validate_certs'])
+        rsp, info = fetch_url(module, url)
         return rsp.read()
     except Exception:
         module.fail_json(msg="error getting key id from url", traceback=format_exc())
diff --git a/packaging/rpm_key b/packaging/rpm_key
index 9d85f30ac8b..8a695c786ff 100644
--- a/packaging/rpm_key
+++ b/packaging/rpm_key
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class RpmKey:
     def fetch_key(self, url, maxbytes=MAXBYTES):
         """Downloads a key from url, returns a valid path to a gpg key"""
         try:
-            rsp, info = fetch_url(self.module, url, validate_certs=self.module.params['validate_certs'])
+            rsp, info = fetch_url(self.module, url)
             key = rsp.read(maxbytes)
             if not is_pubkey(key):
                 self.module.fail_json(msg="Not a public key: %s" % url)
diff --git a/source_control/github_hooks b/source_control/github_hooks
index c5c5b648c7a..6a8d1ced935 100644
--- a/source_control/github_hooks
+++ b/source_control/github_hooks
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def list(module, hookurl, oauthkey, repo, user):
     headers = {
         'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth,
     }
-    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, headers=headers, validate_certs=module.params['validate_certs'])
+    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, headers=headers)
     if info['status'] != 200:
         return False, ''
     else:
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def create(module, hookurl, oauthkey, repo, user):
     headers = {
         'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth,
     }
-    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers, validate_certs=module.params['validate_certs'])
+    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers)
     if info['status'] != 200:
         return 0, '[]'
     else:
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def delete(module, hookurl, oauthkey, repo, user, hookid):
     headers = {
         'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % auth,
     }
-    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers, method='DELETE', validate_certs=module.params['validate_certs'])
+    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers, method='DELETE')
     return response.read()
 
 def main():