Reddit monitors your DMs.

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[–]fatman 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You really think a for-profit corporation running a closed source codebase with a fully manned crew of software engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure/monitoring teams can't figure out how to look at the plaintext bytes that they receive+store+send on behalf of a user?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, but it's not convenient enough for them to check it all.

[–]fatman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I argue that it is convenient and easy to check them all. Fully automated at this point. Each message automatically goes through classification systems and if it stands out it gets flagged for manual review. Any contextual information from that message also gets saved into the persistent dataset they already have on you. Like giving you a hate score... I bet yours is over 9000!