The only thing this tells me is that you can't trust the administration to have a consistent stance on anything. In the one rework they remove the line from all IDs and open up the possibility to group with hostiles under exceptional circumstances. It's not like doing this is any major thing either. You already see people making strange but temporary alliances without any consequences.
I guess I shouldn't have expected much from another installment of the highly convoluted clarification thread series.