Exactly.
Also the article has no mention of crypto backdoors, only on making the big service providers like FB, Google, etc. to cooperate. Which could be on various levels, not necessarily forcing them to build a backdoor in their systems. E.g. there has been a lot of talk about extremist content not being removed, etc, which is a problem - in the US reposting stuff from something like Dabiq (the ISIS propaganda magazine) could be protected speech, in most EU countries it falls under the extremism, racial discrimination and hate speech laws and such content is commonly being blocked/removed (Not going to argue whether that’s good or bad - that’s another debate entirely. The fact is that the laws are like that).
The “source telecom surveillance” is an euphemism for hacking phones and other devices, thus avoiding the issue of encryption. That is both only legalizing an existing practice and a fairly targeted thing. Nobody is going to hack/trojan all phones in the entire country. It is not ideal but compared to a backdoored/outlawed crypto that puts everyone in danger indiscriminately it is the lesser evil.
