> Now they are blatantly publicizing that private chats are being read. no, they aren't: banning the item from private messages doesn't mean that they are enfo

> Now they are blatantly publicizing that private chats are being read. no, they aren't: banning the item from private messages doesn't mean that they are enforcing it by reading private messages. It could mean, for instance, that if somebody complains about you including the item in a private message, you would be in contravention of the rules. also, a robot daemon scanning private messages for the text string would not mean that your private messages were being read in any meaningful way.