I believe the answer to the question is that the Government wants to be able to compel anyone providing a service to be able to ship malware to anybody they cho

I believe the answer to the question is that the Government wants to be able to compel anyone providing a service to be able to ship malware to anybody they choose, with huge fines for refusing or informing anybody about it. So, say if Snapchat was end-to-end encrypted - they would then tell Snapchat to create a special version with a backdoor that streams any messages to the Government, and then compel, say, Apple to provide it to a certain Apple ID as an update. The user would happily go on using it not realising he was compromised. I think the idea is that a 'systemic weakness' would be getting a backdoor that is distributed to all Snapchat users, whereas they feel that delivering malware with backdoors to specific people is fine. At the end of the day, it's pretty ridiculous, and it should just be scrapped. We unfortunately have massive overreach in intelligence though unfortunately - it's literally legal for intelligence services to break into anybody's property and copy documents, implant listening devices, etc... We don't have a bill of rights or anything to prevent such overreach.