China is building a digital dictatorship

[Blue_Tires]

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Link to tweet

Social credit is like a personal scorecard for each of China’s 1.4 billion citizens.

In one pilot program already in place, each citizen has been assigned a score out of 800. In other programs it’s 900.

Those, like Dandan, with top “citizen scores” get VIP treatment at hotels and airports, cheap loans and a fast track to the best universities and jobs.

“It will allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”

Those at the bottom can be locked out of society and banned from travel, or barred from getting credit or government jobs.

The system will be enforced by the latest in high-tech surveillance systems as China pushes to become the world leader in artificial intelligence.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278

[eleny]

1. It's news like this that makes me okay with being old

The powerful can be horrid in science fiction ways.

[eleny]

2. I suggest you amend the title of your OP

Perhaps something like, "China is building a digital dictatorship" - the way the report begins. This Chinese government intervention in everyday lives is a horror.

I'm sending this article to many. Thanks so much for posting about it.

[EarlG]

3. This is the plot of a Black Mirror episode

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

[sdfernando]

4. why don't they just adopt the old Indian caste system???

yeah, I know, that system really isn't gone.

[joshcryer]

5. Guarantee you that they'll bitch when Amazon does this.

But Amazon's implementation will be for "rewards" coupons, and stuff like that. Put you on their health insurance plan and they would reward you for buying healthy food, etc.

[JCanete]

6. While I find Greenwald and Snowden's politics problematic, I don't see how pointing to a nation

that at least most of us know is a human rights abuser, is proving any kind of hypocrisy whatsoever, particularly given that the fact that China is a financial powerhouse today has a lot to do with the human rights violations America has allowed to persist for decades, quietly, contentedly, while we benefitted from cheap labor and cheap goods.


Now this kind of thing would be the reason for using punitive tariffs….the kind of reason that you could shame other first world nations into getting behind at that. Of course improving the human experience is not on Trump's agenda whatsoever, so sadly his motives are not pure and the results are going to likely be a mess.

Also, Google's willingness to go along with Chinese censorship in order to get a piece of that pie is another thing, that if we were actually benevolent actors on the international stage, we would legally curtail.

but your main issue here is that you haven't heard anything from Greenwald or Snowden about this?

[Cha]

7. KR!

[betsuni]

8. Of course not! It's okay if they can't blame Democrats and stir up anti-American sentiments.

I haven't heard anything about surveillance or drones or Big Brother since Trump's been in office. That was only fun when Obama was president.

[rogue emissary]

9. Toss in Jill Stein as well.

She loved praiseing Russia at the same time they effectively made it illegal to be LGBTQIA.

They only seem to care about government overreach in the U.S.

[QC]

10. Now that you mention it. they haven't said anything about

the Eminem / MGK beef either.

Hmmmm....

[ismnotwasm]

11. Holy shit

[eleny]

12. Kick for the evening crowd