About

People do not have one preference. They have a preference they can afford to show. Closed Door is a reading room of cases where the affordable sentence and the private sentence both survived — because a court, a Congress, a whistleblower, or a settlement dragged the second one into the light. The point is not that companies lie. The point is to see the split clearly enough that you start noticing it in rooms that have not been unsealed yet.

The word

Timur Kuran called it preference falsification: people misrepresent a private preference when the audience is costly. The useful object is not an interesting email. It is a pair — a sentence built for Congress, customers, or a newspaper, next to a sentence written for colleagues.

What we host

We host quotes and commentary. Primary documents stay at CourtListener, Climate Files, FBarchive, DocumentCloud.

Short verbatim quotes, usually under a hundred words per claim, plus our commentary and the URL. We do not store Sony mailboxes, Enron PSTs, the Uber Files raw dump, DDoSecrets torrents, or paywalled HTML. If a fetch of an allowed PDF fails, you still have the quote we shipped and the link.

What this is not

It is not a search box over 173,000 Sony emails. Full mailboxes — OpenMail, the Enron viewer, WikiLeaks Sony, FBarchive — are a depth layer reached from a pair, never the front door. Sony and raw Enron are texture labs, poor public/private pairs; they are named once on Sources.

How this became public: this page is ours. The pairs are not.