You are right, and yet I always asked myself if all the regulations ever made sense. Those that really want to coordinate any kind of illicit activity, do they

You are right, and yet I always asked myself if all the regulations ever made sense. Those that really want to coordinate any kind of illicit activity, do they use Whatsapp thinking it is secure, or would they be smart enough to set up their own infrastructure? How many threats were stopped due to police/Three-Letter-Agencies being able to tap into the largest services vs going to the deep web and infiltrating/investigating the group "in person"? In any case, my feeling is that all these regulations do is push privacy-conscious people into running their own infra. I was even on the point of running my own email, Matrix and even a SIP server at home, but then I realized that whoever I will be communicating with would not be doing the same so the whole thing is at best an exercise in my sysadmin skills.