Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/20/unknowable-evidence.html

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[larrycovey]

“it would also project a message that the government values intellectual property holders more than those whose life or liberty is at stake.” It would project that message because the government DOES value property owners more than criminal defendants. A lot more.

[anon90144361]

This insane libertarian idea that property rights are the only rights that matter needs to be reversed. Copyright and patent was written to maximize the public interest, but that’s flipped to the point where property rights are used to take way the rights of others.