> the proposed passage that would have forced companies to decrypt encrypted data upon request by the authorities got removed from the draft law.

Therefore, a law forcing them to decrypt encrypted data upon request necessarily makes it illegal to implement secure E2E encryption. QED.

(If the law only allowed them to share with the government data that was already decryptable by third parties, that would be a different matter. That's what happened to Tutanota in Germany: the tribunal ruled that they had to allow the police to access messages sent as cleartext, but they could not be required to put a backdoor in their E2E clients.)

If a government, possessing a working set of quantum computers, chose to ban post-quantum crypto algos only, by the same semantics it could be argued that it would not be a general "encryption ban" either.

> a passage that would have forced companies such as WhatsApp and Signal to decrypt their encrypted chats upon request by the authorities for criminal investigation.

The bad property of backdoors is that they can be discovered and used by other people, not just the ones that have the correct badges.

I definitely do not want the Russians, the Chinese or that infamous Israeli private corporation to read my messages at will.

I am perfectly comfortable with having my children run around in the same streets as people selling drugs or stolen credit card numbers online.

But to address your point less literally - "it might make it easier to catch criminals" is an extraordinarily weak justification for compromising the privacy of BILLIONS of citizens (WhatsApp, sadly, runs most of the personal communications in vast swathes of the world).

And crime is not limited to selling drugs and stealing credit card numbers (which is actually not a thriving business anymore ...), example:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-abuse-idUSKCN1GO1...

The only exception I can think of is distribution of child porn. Everything else has a massive real world trace that can be used to convict the perps.

What?

A world without strong crypto is a world where all kinds of records and communications are mercilessly exploited by entire armies of bad actors, some of which may sit ten timezones away from you. It is like having your home or business open to the entire 8 billion people out there.

Can I come and live on your planet? It sounds very nice.