The source for that article was a single cop in a single country (Spain) making an off-handed comment. The way it’s been spun as a universal concept in Europe by all of the Android blogs is misleading.
Yes. I think that one comment was a flash in the pan about a particular moment in time from an officer involved in a very specific type of drug trafficking prosecutions.
There's a big difference between being the user of something (Pixel/GrapheneOS, though I find these as weird comparisons given) and being an operator of something.
Operating an exit node is by definition you acting in the distribution of such activity (legal or not).
Just wanted to understand your point.