This "it could have been worse" is weird. The point of requirements to use official channels is two-fold: 1. It maintains an archive that can be used for acco

This "it could have been worse" is weird. The point of requirements to use official channels is two-fold: 1. It maintains an archive that can be used for accountability. 2. Anyone communicating with not-that-account can potentially flip to the watchdogs, making it harder to use unofficial communications. I'm not so naive to think that those unofficial communications don't happen. I expect that most campaigns have used them for dirty laundry. It doesn't mean we get rid of the channels we can see.