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Originally Posted by Oblarg
This is fine, and is a perfectly legitimate and well-founded view. It is not the only legitimate view. This is a complicated issue, and attempts to paint it as black-and-white, I think, do everyone involved in the discussion a disservice.
To some sensibilities, fairness. People/teams that have seen it are not going to un-see it. Attempts to contain leaks can certainly, in some situations, be less-ideal solutions than everyone knowing what was leaked. Whether it "should" be in the public domain or not is, to an extent, immaterial - it is in the public domain, and that's not something that can necessarily be undone.
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I missed this in my first reply, so let's talk about this here.
I follow the auto industry a good bit, just the nature of my day job. When a new model is coming out, it's almost always the case that some publication leaks it out. Not even an accident, sometimes they're flaunting it or sometimes their print magazine hits the newsstands a smidgen early. In that case, the media embargo is fast crumbling and the auto makers will often just open up the flood gates with more information.
However, this is FIRST. Anyone that's done this dance, and any reasonable person that hadn't, would tell you that
FIRST does not want Kickoff information published before Kickoff! Errors will happen, and it is on all of us who may see such errors to do the right thing. I fail to see how anyone can construe that the responsible thing to do here to do anything other than report it to the appropriate people with the company and then clam up until Kickoff to maintain alignment with FIRST's desired outcome as closely as possible.