However; in actuality the use of scanners to monitor ATC transmissions for the purposes of general interest, hobby or self-education APPEARS to be tolerated for the most part as long as the specific details of the transmissions are not disseminated to the general public domain.
For the most part? I'd say for the all part - I am unware of any prosecution ever relating to this issue.
Some people need to chill out I think, no personal identifying details were given in the original post, no slander or anything even contentious.