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"Public domain" is a copyright term which isn't really relevant here. The point the other user is trying to make is that, legally speaking, calling something "private" when it very well may be not private is at best disingenuous and at worst a lawsuit waiting to happen.
And it doesn't change the fact that only you, the other person and the wiretapper know about that conversation ever happening... well also whoever they might have shared that with as well, but that's still not public as in someone reading this comment. Everyone can read and confirm that this is what I wrote.
I agree partly with you but...
If the wiretapper releases that conversation and it appears on every TV in the World then it is public and the first thing you are going to say is "but that was a private conversation in a private room and was not meant to be public". There is expectation of privacy. There is none in a DM. It is a direct message/contact between you, other person and potentially 99999 auditors, and the rest of the world. This is by design, not an exceptional situation.
Yeah, perhaps you're right... maybe we should just drop the whole PM thing, cuz it makes less sense that calling them DMs.
Yeah, I know, I was just trying to clarify and couldn't think of another term ๐คท.
The truth is, if you share something online, whether it be in a PM or publicly, it can never ever be considered private. However, a PM's content is harder to get to than reading this comment for example, that was my point.