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Would you say the same about Metasploit or Wireshark? If not, where do you suggest the line be drawn?

Software that runs on your own computer is not a weapon; software that is designed to run on other people's computers without their knowledge or consent probably is. That would put Wireshark clearly on the acceptable side of the line and Metasploit in a very questionable place.

Living in Sweden, it's relatively common to read the news that Ericsson has sold networking equipment to some company in country X where the required feature "lawful intercept" has been used to something horribily bad by a corrupt regime.

If Ericsson would block the sales of network equipment to those kind of countries on that ground, Huawei would jump in and gladly accept the deal instead. :/

Maybe Ericsson could try to get privacy-protective technical features into the GSM specs. (The best time to do that would have been between 1999 and 2001. It will be harder now.)

GSM is a privacy and security nightmare.

I tried bringing up Second Amendment Protections applying to software about fifteen years ago to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I got a polite letter back laughing at me.

Let's just say I agree with you, though.