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What's your opinion on this? 25 years is quite a common timeframe for declassification. I would assume that's quite reasonable timeframe for journalistic stand

• neilv 3y ago
  IIUC, declassification concerns checks&balances upon powers given to a government that is responsible to citizens. Sega documents, on the other hand, seem more like fodder for an MBA student's case study, and anecdotes to drop in popular business books. Which seems much lower public interest, to plug into whatever cost:benefit calculation. I don't have a good sense of what should be done about the Sega documents. (Hypothetically, were I a journalist but knowing only what I do now, and the documents had been leaked to me only, I'd probably try to authenticate them and determine the motives of the leaker, and then I'd have to get advice from others.) Not specific to the Sega documents, I'm frequently concerned when I see some kind of information leaked/stolen, and the appearance is that everyone automatically considers it free-game for all purposes. That appearance might only come from a vocal minority, but when no one questions or objects, it looks universal, and like a sociopathic culture.