
Linea Lirondottir |

The Pathfinder Society is supposedly about exploring things and sharing the information discovered, but there's a startling level of censorship and restrictions on the entire "sharing" part.
First, reports to Venture-Captains are read and then passed on at said Venture-Captain's discretion; any amount of information can be covered up here with any number of excuses.
Second, what's passed on to the Decemvirate has only a small fraction released in the Pathfinder Chronicles; this is the first point where a general audience has the chance to read what others have been doing, and it's already been through two layers of censorship!
Third, the Pathfinder Chronicles aren't even meant for distribution outside of the Pathfinder Society itself! (Though there are inevitably leaks, possibly intentional in nature).
Unless there's something very important I'm missing, the Pathfinder Society blatantly ignores its supposed goal through its basic organizational structure.
Possible mitigating factor: Are Pathfinders allowed to write books/share reports with groups outside of the Pathfinder Soceity without censure or penalty?

Linea Lirondottir |

Huh. I guess it's mostly been a personal extrapolation based off of the origins of the group (Seekers of Secrets page 26; explicitly to share information amongst each other and with whoever happened to be around, until the first volume was written for everyone to read) and from what scholars of all stripes tend to do.