“Say that the Spanish government was forcing us to choose between undermining encryption in a way that would pollute Signal and making it dangerous for everyone, or leaving the market. That means everyone in the world who has a contact in Spain they need to talk to, they could no longer communicate. If the choice were between undermining encryption, undermining our privacy promises in a way that harmed anyone who use the Signal network, or leaving a market, we would leave a market in a heartbeat,” she explains.
Spain has a lot of these types of brain dead big brother policies. They are also big fans of chat control and seem to generally hate personal privacy.