I expected to feel conflicted before reading this article for the exact reasons you outlined. However, this line from the article made a difference: > "The fou

I expected to feel conflicted before reading this article for the exact reasons you outlined. However, this line from the article made a difference: > "The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group." They were being deliberate shit heads. This wasn't a private chat, this was intentionally sharing offensive content with the explicit purpose of ruffling feathers and pissing people off. To call this a "private chat" is misleading - this was essentially a public forum for an incoming class to share content and these 10 students should have had zero expectation of privacy. If I were on the AdCom, I wouldn't have kicked them out for posting objectionable content, I would have kicked them out for being sheer, utter morons.