It's incredible that even on Hacker News so many people expect that Snapchat messages are not monitored I guess that explains why it's so used. It's a central

It's incredible that even on Hacker News so many people expect that Snapchat messages are not monitored I guess that explains why it's so used. It's a centralized, non E2EE system, you don't expect them to flag something with "blow up", "plane" and "taliban" in the same message? It's more likely than one of the group members reported it, but if it got flagged, sent to some five eyes system and there they noticed (manually or automatically) that the guy just boarded a plane, it doesn't sound surprising ! And actually Snapchat gets the users' position as well, it might well be that a reviewer at Snapchat itself saw that he was in an airport and reported it. Being an immediate threat it's not surprising they acted like that. The weird wifi story means that they know people expect privacy on Snapchat, I guess.