End to end encryption (E2EE) means that all our messages, phone calls and video calls cannot be intercepted by crooks, fraudsters, and scammers. It means our communications stay private, and data cannot be stolen and miss used.
Our politicians have had (E2EE) for decades on diplomatic channels.
Everyone with a internet connected device should have the right to privacy which (E2EE) ensures. It is easy to implement, and is here to stay.
As far as the authorities are concerned, every citizen being able to protect their privacy means that Governments, spy agencies and surveillance agencies have a harder job of snooping on us all.
So they want force computer and phone operating system makers to give them a key or a backdoor which will let them spy on everyone again.
Obviously most sensible people do not want the keys to their privacy to be given away. So the authorities are using stories like the one in the link, to fear monger. (E2EE) Is being associated with criminality and cruelty.
The knee jerk call to ban FaceBook totally misses what the authorities want. They don’t want FB banned (POTUS and UK Gov would be lost without it), they want FB to remain, but they want to be able to read hear and see our private communications.
We should not let them.