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There's a pretty big difference between "wanting unfettered access to online communications" and "requiring all services that enable communications... to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order." A court order is not "unfettered access." I would oppose warrantless taps of any form of communication, but we have a system of court warrants for a reason. I don't want anyone, including the government, going around the warrant system. As far as I can see, this would strengthen the warrant system and the courts, by setting a clear standard for law enforcement to meet if they want to investigate private electronic communications, just as they are supposed to meet a certain standard to search my house or stop my car.
But then, I believe the rule of law is an ideal worth pursuing, and better than any other systems I know of in use in the world. Some folks might prefer to believe that anarchy would be better, because if people didn't have someone trying to enforce rules, they'd automatically behave better. Or something like that.
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